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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

– Edward Morgan ForsterRate it:

The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.

– Med JonesRate it:

The historical facts show that most people can’t feel anything worthwhile, so how could a person make them think to accept anyone worth respecting.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

– Laurence SterneRate it:

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

– Willa Sibert CatherRate it:

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

– Friedrich August von HayekRate it:

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

– VoltaireRate it:

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

– E.M. CioranRate it:

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

– Erich FrommRate it:

The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle.

– Letitia Elizabeth LandonRate it:

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

– Mark TwainRate it:

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

– Benito MussoliniRate it:

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

– Karl R. PopperRate it:

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

– Immanuel KantRate it:

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

– Lytton StracheyRate it:

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

– Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)Rate it:

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug BandowRate it:

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

– Carl J. FriedrichRate it:

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

– J. R. R. TolkienRate it:

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

– Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

The holistic review of weekend curfew & lockdown shows clearly that it gives bumper profit to only a few who created the atmosphere of fear via stories of artificial virus to grow their business and economically hit rest of the population.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

– Johnny CarsonRate it:

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

– David K. ShiplerRate it:

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