With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make. . . countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.
And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understandings of history. Policymakers are going to be trumpeting this deal, but you know, as of now, we just don't know whether the women themselves who are actually victims will think this agreement is enough.
A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.
Happy is the day whose history is not written down.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
