What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Leo Tolstoy

Stichwörter: power history humanity sociology



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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

Alexandre Dumas

Stichwörter: history posterity



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And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.

Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.

Anne Bartlett

Stichwörter: women history knitting



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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston S. Churchill

Stichwörter: history



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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

Dan Simmons

Stichwörter: writing history literature



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Al escribir "historia" me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama "historia patria" es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

Octavio Paz

Stichwörter: history nationalism



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Look son, the Human Pig.

(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!

(deadpan)Another animal could do this?

Larry Gonick

Stichwörter: history china



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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Leo Tolstoy

Stichwörter: history



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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Leo Tolstoy

Stichwörter: life history humanity culture motives



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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Iain Banks

Stichwörter: reading history sci-fi



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