Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

History does not always repeat itself.

History does not always repeat itself.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.