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 It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut

 It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

 Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes

 Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes

 Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.
  Eugene Ionesco

 More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations
  John Barth

 More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations
  John Barth

 More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
  Kofi Annan

 Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

 My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government

 Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

 Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
  Marge Piercy

 Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering
  Theodore Roosevelt

 Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an earlier era, they are replaced by people ignorant of those times and therefore easy targets for demagogues.

 On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other
  James Madison


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