"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

History, Truth, Observation, Power

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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

History, Life, Enemies, Man

"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

History, Land, Hope, Passion, Necessity

"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

History, Execution, Fire, Destruction

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

History, Invention, Protestant, Innovation

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Humanity, Ambition, Conflict

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

History, Men, Man

"They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

History, Future, Past, Memory, Power

"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

History, Connection, Mystery, Fate

"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

History, Gossip

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

Military

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."

History

"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."

Humor

"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."

Communication

"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."

Society

"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."

Leadership

"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

Leadership

"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

Contentment

"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."

Politics

"These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle."

Humor