History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. - Martin Luther King Jr
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. - Will Durant
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. - Will Durant
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. - Harry Browne
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. - Will Durant
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. - Henry Ford
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away. - Will Durant
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. - Will Durant
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. - Pablo Picasso
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalization imposed in the interests of the powerful. - Noam Chomsky
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold. - Woody Harrelson
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. - Will Durant
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing. - Joel Salatin
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