Voltaire Quotes, Historical Quotes, Records Quotes

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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Language is the archives of history.

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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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