It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.
History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.
History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.
Time passes, everything becomes history. Life, Death and suffering. These are the harsh judgements of life, we have to cope or give up.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Kau Pribumi terpelajar! Kalau mereka itu, Pribumi itu, tidak terpelajar, kau harus bikin mereka jadi terpelajar. Kau harus, harus, harus, harus bicara pada mereka , dengan bahasa yang mereka tahu
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
Just in front of her lay the Congaree Swamp National Forest. To prove it, a mosquito the size of a kitten landed on her arm and prepared to drill.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.
