"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

History, Positive, Conquest, State

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"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

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"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."

Opinion, Pride

"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."

People, Acquaintance

"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."

Life, Failure, Cheerfulness, Discontent

"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Diplomacy, Secrets

"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

Cultural, Culture, Learning

"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."

Money, Power, State

"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

History, Positive, Conquest, State

"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."

Knowledge, Error, Learning, May

"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."

Knowledge, Body, Culture, May

"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

History, Corruption, Nature, Violence, Humanity

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"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

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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

History, Regret, Learning, Mistake