I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?