También se escribe historia con la utopía de mejorar los tiempos y librarse, a la vez, de muchos materiales y formas muertas que arrastra el pasado.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

History is a jangle of accidents blunders surprises and absurdities and so is our knowledge of it but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order on it

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

Perbedaan warna kulit yang anda anut membangkitkan perasaan jijik orang Asia! Sampai-sampai ke dalam film anda memperlihatkan kerendahan dari bansa kulit berwarna!

For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

Meski aku masih seorang pemuda, aku tidak lagi menjadi seorang penerima. Aku sekarang sudah menjadi seorang pemimpin. Aku memiliki pengikut. Aku memiliki nama baik.

Setidaknya, Indonesia juga pernah memiliki kisah menarik di balik sejarahnya, bukan hanya bangsa barat saja yang memiliki cerita-cerita abad pertengahan ala mereka.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.