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 TolstoyTags: power history humanity sociology
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 DumasAnd 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.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: history
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 SimmonsTags: writing history literature
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 PazTags: history nationalism
Look son, the Human Pig.
(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!
(deadpan)Another animal could do this?
The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
Leo TolstoyTags: history
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo TolstoyTags: life history humanity culture motives
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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