A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
F. Sionil Jose
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native... →
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the... →
Leon Jouhaux
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been... →
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
Cris Judd
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left... →
Tony Judt
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge... →
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.