The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before -... →
Gever Tulley
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its... →
Frederick Jackson Turner
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Nick Turse
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
Donald Tusk
If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you... →
Desmond Tutu
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think... →
Anne Tyler