Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U. S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
War is an option of difficulties.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.