Age Quote by A. N. Wilson

“There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the…

— Ken Wilson

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

— Ralph Nader

“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood…

— Timothy Snyder

“The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that the…

— Boris Pasternak

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so…

— Hosea Ballou

“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and…

— Emil Cioran

“The floods which devastate regions, the fire of the lightning which reduces cities to ashes, the poison of the plague which afflicts provinces, are…

— Frederick the Great

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know…

— Salman Rushdie

“The rest of history for three and twenty centuries is threaded with the spreading out and development and interaction and the clearer and more…

— H.G. Wells

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society…

— Daniel Myerson

“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets…

— Michael Chabon

“And another thing needs to be said. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the weeks preceding Zero Day made it possible to predict it. There were…

— Anonymous