History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Sungguh-sungguh, sifat gadis tua, menyanjung-nyanjung kenangan lama.

Kami terus melangkah, tetapi perjalanan waktu tidak bisa dihentikan.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin.

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

Bebek berjalan beramai-ramai, tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen

...we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.