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
Author: Erich Fromm
The history of the world is but
the biography of great men.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The instinct to command others,
in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage
instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes
on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting
itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction,
or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence
it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application
of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action.
If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.
Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
The marvel of all history is
the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid
upon them by their governments.
Author: William Edgar Borah
The study of history is the beginning
of political wisdom
Author: Jean Bodin
The true fanatic is a theocrat,
someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force:
the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These
absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Author: Lord Billingsley
The upward course of a nation's
history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average
men and women
Author: Elizabeth II
The whole history of civilization
is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and
deadly afterwards.
Author: Walter Bagehot
Things that are done, it is
needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.
Author: Confucius
This ONLY is denied God: The
power to undo the past.
Author: Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
We are not retreating - we are
advancing in another Direction
Author: General Douglas MacArthur
We live in the present, we dream
of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Author: Madame Chiang
What is history but a fable
agreed upon.
Author: Napolean Bonaparte
When the Japanese mend broken
objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because
they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it
becomes more beautiful.
Author: Barbara Bloom,
When you make a mistake, don't
look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then
look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
Author: Phyllis Bottome
