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"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Slavery, Power, Opportunity

"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Religion, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Guilt, Cruelty, Confession, Humanity

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

George Eliot, British Author

History, Men, Persecution

"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Gender, Truth, Conflict

"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Evil, Conflict, People

"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

History, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Death, Knowledge, Belief, Ambition

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."

Philosophy, Intelligence, Charity, Love, Goodwill

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."

Morality, Chastity

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

History, Men

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Music, Silence

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

Life, Advice, End

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Work, Feeling, Man, Sense

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

People, Purpose, Forget

"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."

Beauty, Men, Truth, Discovery

"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

Science, Discovery, Enemy, Knowledge