"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"

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"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

History,

"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

History, Violence, War, Death, Suffering

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

History, Men, Women, Opposition

"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

History, Stupidity, Humanity, Irony

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

Susan Sontag, American Author

History, Exhaustion, Man, Possibilities

"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

History, Letters, People, Blood, Passion

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

History, Conquest, Earth, Noses, Pretty

"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

Barack Obama, American President

History, Colonialism, Past, Identity

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

History, Change, Idea, Ownership, Past

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"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."

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"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."

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"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."

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"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."

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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."

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"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"

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"I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result."

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