You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.