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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, read more
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
