Doe Quote by A. N. Wilson Download Open image “History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.” — A. N. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Grievance History Landmines Lays
History is one thing that nobody can take away. No matter what anybody says or whose side you're on. — May Pang Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
