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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have read more
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me read more
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.