quotes
proverbs
It is all the same whether one has good ideas oneself or is prepared to listen to someone else who is offering good advice.
- Artabanus
Ideas come to us out of order.
- Simon Flexner
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
- Sophocles
In order to be sure one must be unsure.
- Edmund Morgan
To teach is to learn twice.
- Joseph Joubert
The path is made in the walking of it.
- Zhuangzi
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Gary Player
One must always be doing something to realize truth.
- Wang Yangming
The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
- Ladybird Johnson
The one who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Confucius
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
- Bob Dylan
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose.
- Ecclesiastes
It’s a lovely day for the race. The human race.
- Samuel Samuel
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
- Alex Murdaugh
Hells hottest fires burn for hypocrites.
- Edwin Edwards
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Truman
He that drinks cider alone. Let him catch his horse alone.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water jar.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Human life is an anvil on which souls are formed by the blows of fate.
- Dostoevsky
Life is not so important as the duties of life.
- John Randolph
language
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole
Language is the filter through which the soul of a people reaches into the material world.
- Wade Davis
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
In speaking, one should avoid scurrility, affectations, and cant. What people really want to hear is truth - it is the exciting thing - speak the simple truth.
- Bourke Cockran
It is slothful not to compress your thoughts.
- Winston Churchill
You who read me, are you sure of understanding my language?
- Jorge Luis Borges
Eloquence is like a flame: it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.
- William Pitt the Younger
Burke mastered the English language as a man masters the horse.
- Bourke Cockran
Knowledge travels in the baggage of language.
- Jurgen Osterhammel
Language, the first and most basic tool of culture, is also its truest mirror.
- Richard Ben Kramer
Humankind is defined by language; but civilization is defined by writing.
- Peter Daniels
Language changes constantly but writing is generally fixed.
- Peter Daniels
Cognitively as well as sociologically, writing underpins ‘civilization’, the culture of cities.
- Jack Goody
Now as regards to the shape of foreign letters, they are confused and irregular. In the construction of their dots and lines, one misses the balance of the pictorial characters, the significance of the compounds, and the deep meaning of the characters.
- Shinoya Tōin
future
History is fate.
- David Halberstam
All efforts against the prevailing trend of history - which is not always obvious - are doomed to failure.
- Fernand Braudel
The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.
- Winston Churchill
Seekers of lost glories must be grateful even for crumbs.
- Scott Weidensaul
The spiritual estate of man is so enormous and so inexhaustible in its diversity that only he who stands on the shoulders of great predecessors can utter a truly new and weighty word.
- Leon Trotsky
Wisdom lies not in regretting the inevitable but in adapting oneself to the altered condition of things.
- Saddlery and Harness magazine, 1895
The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
- William Gibson
A lag stretches between the happenings of a historical process and it’s recognition.
- Barbara Tuchman
In every great turning point in history, the preconditions and causes reach far back into the past.
- Jonathan Israel
It is not given to human beings - happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable - to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
- Winston Churchill
The eye seldom sees what the mind does not anticipate.
- Robertson Davies
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
- Mike Tyson
Knowing the right questions may be more important than thinking you know the answers.
- Morris Ernst
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
- Mark Twain
All wars are fought twice. The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
It is a trap of history to believe that eyewitnesses remember accurately what they have lived through.
- Theodore White
It is not our mind that masters the great events. On the contrary the events arising from a combination, interplay, and concatenation of great objective historical forces compel our sluggish, lazy mind waddlingly and limpingly to adjust itself.
- Leon Trotsky
Everyday we get a front seat to history.
- John H. White
Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
- Philip Graham
Dissent is the way the voice of prophecy is first heard.
- Irving Dilliard
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
Dreams are maps.
- Carl Sagan
Past years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable at a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.
- Beryl Markham
Grief for something lost and fear of losing it amount to the same thing.
- Seneca
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
- Montesquieu
Happiness leaves little trace in history.
- Fernand Braudel
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
As we see them change, so we see how we became who we are.
- E. P. Thompson
You cannot step in the same river twice.
- Greek proverb
En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
- Jean de La Fontaine
When the sun stands at midday, it begins to set. When the moon is full, it begins to wane. The fullness and emptiness of heaven and earth wane and wax in the course of time. How much truer is this of men, or of spirits and gods!
- Confucian commentary on the Book of Changes
Such as thou art, so once was I. As I am now, so shalt thou be.
- Edward the Black Prince
What the dead had no speech for when living, they can tell you, being dead. The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
- T. S. Elliot
places
The world has too much beauty and adventure for one person to see.
- Elliot Dallen
No horizon is so far that we cannot get above it and beyond it.
- Beryl Markham
Travel is usually a greater source of learning than the page.
- Dan Wang
It is a great error to suppose that people are rendered stupid by remaining always in the same place.
- William Cobbett
The Earth is a generous mother. She will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children, if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and peace.
- Bourke Cockran
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogeneous raw material. It was very diverse, and the resulting artifacts are very diverse. These differences in the end-product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the world’s cultures reflect a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
- Aldo Leopold
These regions, which yet form only an immense wilderness, will become one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. Nothing is missing except civilized man, and he is at the door.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
America is a religion in itself.
- Michael Novak
America is conservative in fundamental principles, but the principles conserved are liberal and sometime radical.
- Gunnar Myrdal
I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.
- Alexis De Tocqueville
The United States is a nation of compromises.
- Shelby Foote
The government of the United States is a government of laws, and not of men.
- John Adams
The United States has a long history of failing to preserve civil liberties when it perceived its national security threatened. The country has remorsefully realized the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it has proven unable to prevent itself from repeating the error when the next crisis came along.
- William Brennan
There are no second acts in American lives.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Families are always rising and falling in America.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.
- General Billy Mitchell
The Grid of New York is the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization: the land it divides, unoccupied, the population it describes, conjectural; the buildings it locates, phantoms….
- Rem Koolhaas
One cannot dip a toe into the water of New York politics without sensing, moving somewhere deep beneath the surface, the presence of an enormous force, a power unseen but immense: the power of banks.
- Robert Caro
At what moment, exactly, did the city of Chicago cease to be part of nature? Even to ask the question suggests it’s absurdity.
- William Cronon
The history of Capitalism is the subordination of the country to the town.
- Leon Trotsky
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The city is a granite garden, composed of many smaller gardens, set in a garden world.
- Anne Spirn
In cities - where people’s lives are denser, endlessly intertwined, hopelessly snarled tangles of aspirations and antagonisms - hopes and fears and dreams and dreads follow the same.
- Robert Caro
Stadtluft macht frei.
- Medieval German saying
The same logic that causes big rivers always to flow past big cities causes cheap farms sometimes to be marooned by spring floods.
- Aldo Leopold
The warmth of southern sun pervades in subtle ways the northern shades.
- Luís de Camões
Quid est mare? Refugium in periculis.
- Alcuins Catechism
The steepest places have been at all times the asylum of liberty.
- Baron de Tott
Italy is cultivated right up to the mountain tops.
- Guicciardini
In Columbia there are no train schedules, only rumors.
- Wade Davis
With time, England will be only London.
- King James 1st
I have been crushed under a sense of the mere magnitude of London - its inconceivable immensity - in such a way as to paralyze my mind for any appreciation of details.
- Henry James
Amsterdam is the inventory of the possible.
- Descartes
History clearly shows that the salt of the earth is gradually shifting eastwards. In the 18th century France was the salt of the earth, in the 19th Germany. Now it is Russia.
- Grigori Sokolnikov
Russians possess the genius of all the peoples and also have our own; thus we can understand you and you cannot understand us.
- Dostoevsky
There are two parties in Russia. One party in office and one in prison.
- Nikolai Bukharin
India lives in its villages.
- Gandhi
Hindu thought takes a longer route on its way to reach a conclusion and so gathers more richness along the way.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Namche Barwa will one day fall into the Tsangpo gorge and block the river, which will then turn aside and flow over the Doshong La.
- Kongbo Tibetan Prophecy
No trading port as large as Malacca is known, nor any where they deal in such fine and highly prized merchandise. Goods from all over the East are found here; goods from all over the West are sold here. It is at the end of the monsoons where you find what you want, and sometimes more than you are looking for.
- Tomé Pires
With God’s help, we will lift Shanghai up and up, ever up until it is just like Kansas City.
- Senator Kenneth Wherry's Prophecy
Stilwell knew too much about China for his own good.
- General Paul Freeman
Leadership in a world economy is an experience of power which may one day blind the victor to the march of history.
- Fernand Braudel
So often in international affairs, hawkish paranoia can create the monster that is most feared.
- William Dalrymple
All the power of the United States will not stem the tides of Asia, but all the wisdom of which we are capable might conceivably make those tides a little more friendly to us than they are now.
- John Melby
science
When I say a thing is true I mean I can’t help believing it - and nothing more.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
- JBS Haldane
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
- Richard Feynman
We should look for what is, and not for what we think should be.
- Albert Einstein
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sherlock Holmes
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
No one can impart spiritual knowledge unless he has realization. What is meant by realization? It means knowledge based on direct perception.
- Katha Upanishad
Everyone wants to know, but no one wants to pay the price.
- Juvenal
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
- Ernest Rutherford
Physics is simple only when analyzed locally.
- Charles Misner
It is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry.
- PW Anderson
It is though Nature herself is guided by the same kind of criteria of consistency and elegance as those that guide human mathematical thought.
- Roger Penrose
Euclidean geometry is not simply mathematics, it is a (fantastically accurate) physical theory of space.
- Tristan Needham
No matter how determinedly mathematicians ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.
- John Tierney
Combinatorics is the art of counting without counting.
- Frank Ramsey
In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won’t ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. That’s why mathematics is really my only interest.
- Paul Erdös
There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
- G. H. Hardy
If anything is certain, it would be mathematics.
- Paul Erdös
How willingly would I have exchanged a full-scale invasion for this shapeless, measureless peril, expressed in charts, curves, and statistics.
- Winston Churchill
The best of science doesn’t consist of mathematical models and experiments, as textbooks make it seem. Those come later. It springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought, wherein the hunter’s mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh metaphors and the scrambled crazy images of things recently seen.
- Edward Wilson
Change is the key. One can wear out a particular part of mind by continually using it and tiring it. The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
- Winston Churchill
Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from.
- Edward Robert Harrison
Evolution is phenomenon of populations.
- Edward Wilson
The environment is the theatre and evolution is the play.
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson
The better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be destroyed.
- Edward Wilson
There are still surprises for travelers who motor deep into the country and walk into the woods.
- Donald Culross Peattie
The tropical rain forest, though home to tens of thousands of species, is in a sense a counterfeit paradise, a castle of immense biological sophistication built quite literally on a foundation of sand.
- Wade Davis
Water is timeless. Forever new and eternal.
- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
Every drop of rain on the solid aggregate of minerals is a hammer blow.
- Jack Davis
Eating is an agricultural act.
- Wendell Berry
The great advantage of being a reasonable creature, is that you can find a reason for whatever you want to do.
- Benjamin Franklin
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.
- Dumbledore
technology
In a way everything is technology. Not only the rapid changes we are quick to label revolutions, but also the long slow improvements in processes and tools.
- Fernand Braudel
Journalists do a better job of covering revolution than evolution.
- James Reston
The fundamental rule of technological progress: if something can be done, it probably will be done, and possibly already has been.
- Edward Snowden
A new device merely opens the door, it does not compel anyone to enter.
- Lynn White
The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone.
- Sheikh Zaki Yamani
Napoleon moved no faster than Julius Caesar.
- Paul Valéry
All the vibrations of economic life can be grasped through the special case of the metallurgical industry: it sums up everything and paved the way for all that follows.
- Stefan Kurowski
When iron succeeded in becoming the most important production material, it was the event of events in the evolution of humanities.
- Lewis Morgan
Coal stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. With coal almost any feat is possible or easy; without it we are thrown back to the laborious poverty of early times.
- W. S. Jevons
If there should be a WW3, it would have to be fought with someone else’s petroleum, because the United States won’t have it.
- Harold Ickes
It is commonplace in military history that there exists a continuity between the closing phase of one war and the opening phase of the next.
- Isaac Deuscher
In every civilization technical knowhow has manifested itself above all in relation to warfare.
- Jürgen Osterhammer
Our most critical vulnerability is the electrical supply, upon which all other layers of modern society’s technological infrastructure depend.
- Andy Greenberg
The ERCOT grid has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union. It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances.
- Ed Hirs
We must catch up morally and internationally with the machine age. We must catch up with it… in such a way as to create peace in the world, or it will destroy us and everyone else. And that we don’t dare contemplate.
- Harry Truman
Where labor is dear, it must be supplemented by machines; this is the only way to compete with those countries where it is cheap.
- Marc Bloch
Our country used to build shit.
- Frank Sabadka
Our nation was built of White Pine, literally and figuratively.
- Donald Culross Peattie
Canal construction was the grim material foundation of the rise of the United States.
- Jurgen Osterhammel
I envisioned that a group of professionals from The East would come along by and by to tell us how networking was supposed to be done. We had this sort of magical view of The East.
- Steve Crocker
The internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime, and for hundreds of years.
- Rupert Murdoch
Of all the watchdogs, the FCC seems the most eager to sit up and beg or roll over and play dead at the command of Congress.
- Drew Pearson
A feature isn’t real until it’s been exploited.
- Joe Uhl
Software often grows to use the hardware you give it.
- Drew Devault
Flight is but a temporary escape from the eternal custody of the Earth.
- Beryl Markham
design
Focusing is about saying no.
- Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not starting point.
- Frederick W. Maitland
A written constitution is better than an unwritten one.
- Teddy Roosevelt
Organizations which design systems are restricted to producing designs which are copies of their own communication structures.
- Melvin Conway
Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it - all in one great flash of insight.
- J. C. R. Licklider
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
- Donald Knuth
If one plan won’t do, another must.
- John Roebling
Projects of magnitude demand the smooth turning of many wheels. Wheels with wheels, a number of which are often carefully, cleverly concealed.
- David McCullough
Every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction.
- Daniel Yergin
The minute you establish an organization, it starts to decay.
- Tony Peskett
Control intelligence, and you control decision making.
- David Halberstam
It may be time to no longer invest further in lengthening time between failures, but instead on shortening meantime to repair.
- Dan Geer
business
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- Ecclesiastes
If we have any greatness in us, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of daily work.
- Beryl Markham
The thing to fight hard against is the carelessness that comes from familiarity with the job.
- Washington Roebling
Your margin is my opportunity.
- Jeff Bezos
All your friends are false, all your enemies are real.
- A Mexican proverb
Only when the tide goes out you find out who has been swimming naked.
- Warren Buffet
Nothing lasts forever. The most unforeseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you.
- Washington Roebling
Inaction and inactivity are as decisive as action itself.
- Richard Holbrooke
He who’s not busy being born is busy dying.
- Bob Dylan
Innovate or die.
- Roone Arledge
No one was ever great by imitation.
- Samuel Johnson
Patents add the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to answer difficult questions is to find the people who know the answers and interview them.
- Bill Browder
Only a fool learns from their own mistakes. The wise learn from the mistakes of others.
- Otto van Bismark
We will not make the same old mistakes. We will make our own.
- Henry Kissinger
The world still has its glittering prizes for those with stout hearts and sharp swords.
- F. E. Smith
Money, said the Seven Sages of Greece, is the blood and soul of men and he who has none wanders dead among the living.
- Scipion de Gramont
If you don’t inherit it you have to borrow it.
- Michael Milken
Val più avere amici in piazza che denari nella cassa.
- Italian proverb
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- Henry Flagler
An estate is a pond, a trade is a spring.
- Daniel Defoe
Keep your head above water and bet on the growth of your country.
- Henry Flagler
A rising tide lifts all boats.
- John F. Kennedy
The fattest fish are caught in the biggest lakes.
- Cortrugli
The man who labored for another last year, this year labors for himself, and next year he will hire others to labor for him.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the business of the public to alter private contracts.
- John D. Rockefeller
Guilty and mad will be the hour when Congress can find no better way to conduct the finances of the nation than to print an unlimited issue of irredeemable promises to pay.
- Roscoe Conkling
Markets can influence events they can anticipate.
- George Soros
The fraud cycle follows the business cycle.
- Jim Chanos
Don’t try to market your way out of a math problem.
- Jack Welch
society
There is such an intimate connection between the different parts of Society, that one cannot strike one part without its having repercussions on the others.
- Jean François Melon
It is precisely when a social order begins to fall apart that one can discern what has held it together in the first place.
- Karl Mannheim
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine
History may measure the worth of a nation not by the lilt of its slogans or the might of its arsenals or its troyweights of gold, but by how evenhandedly it has dealt with all its citizens and how consistently it has denied dignity to none.
- Richard Kluger
In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
- Karl Popper
Everyone should have biases, and should be forgiven them.
- Scott Weidensaul
The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens.
- Edward Snowden
No national culture can have a healthy and continuous growth without being periodically fertilized by fresh inspiration and new ideas from abroad.
- C. R. Boxer
Wherever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.
- Lawrence Wright
Better 60 years of tyranny than 1 day of anarchy.
- An Arab proverb
Class is defined by men as they live their own history.
- E.P. Thompson
A constitution is a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.
- Edmund Burke
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
- Rice v. Cayetano
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- John Marshall Harlan
It is collective self-consciousness which distinguishes the 19th century working class from the 18th century mob.
- E. P. Thompson
A sort of Socratic spirit will necessarily grow up, wherever large bodies assemble.
- John Thelwall
The lord prefers common looking people, that is why he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The mass is always the magnified reflection of some individual.
- Harry Reichenbach
Institutions are the shadows of men.
- Emerson
The more hierarchical a society becomes, the stronger is the cultural dominion of its elite.
- David Hackett Fischer
There will always be an inner circle of corporate executives, politicians, lawyers, and judges to control the others and obtain the real rewards.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The river of power flows from the Ivy League.
- Joe Biden
The laws are spider webs, they catch the little, but are brushed aside by the big.
- Saying in the Spanish Indies
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A law is a prediction of what the courts will do.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Law forces us to distill things down to their essence.
- Mary Jo White
Lawyers are on all sides of all questions.
- Richard Kluger
A lawyer is simply a highly skilled technician who does not build or erect or paint anything. He does not create. All he does is lubricate the wheels of society by implementing the rules of conduct by which the organized life of men must be carried on.
- John W. Davis
The magnet which attracts corrupters and the natural locus of corruption is always where the discretionary power resides.
- Edward Costikyan
The hand you dare not bite, kiss it.
- Calouste Gulbenkian
In the real world, everyone has something to lose.
- Thomas Friedman
There’s always a best hotel in every town. And the best room of the best hotel always has someone in it.
- J. Paul Getty
If this is not democracy, then it is difficult to imagine what is.
- Robert Moses
Understanding political power in a democracy requires understanding elections.
- Robert Caro
All winning campaigns communicate optimism.
- Richard Ben Cramer
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest arts.
- Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Vom Staat soll an erster Stelle die Rede sein.
- A principal shared among German historians.
Symbolism becomes considerably more important in foreign policy issues than in bread and butter domestic issues where the voter can measure promises and rhetoric against performance and reliability.
- Richard Holbrooke
In government, foolish certainty usually beats fragile wisdom.
- George Packer
Government by precedent, without regard of the principals behind precedent, is one of the vilest systems that can be setup.
- Thomas Paine
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the later.
- Thomas Jefferson
The daily newspaper is the prayer of the modern man.
- Hegel
In a crisis the middle class mind tries to assume a lofty detachment from the deep issues of the day.
- Max Lerner
Sensible men are all of the same religion, but they’d never tell.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If there were not merchants who go to seek for earthly treasures in the Indies, who would transport thither the preachers who take the heavenly treasures?
- Pablo Antonio Vieira
The more backwards a country, the more powerful is the influence of religious superstition and the more likely the people are to worship idols and animals.
- Kume Kunitake
The Reformation spoke the language of nationalism.
- Namier
Behind every great civilization is a vision.
- Christopher Dawson
Mankind progresses from East to West.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is moving to the left.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Every generation cherishes illusions which baffle its successors.
- William Manchester
We are all marked to some extent by the stamp of our generation.
- Anthony Eden
What a convenient thing is a mask. Under the mask every man is equal and the principal magistrates can daily discover for themselves all the little things that concern the people. Behind the mask the doge himself may often be taking a walk.
- Goldoni
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy