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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
To be able to be the first person from NXT to defend their NXT Championship at WrestleMania is awesome and I love making history.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
Democrats, for their part, have chosen to go the way of reckless obstruction, pursuing the first partisan impeachment in history.
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.