Events Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to…

— Howard Zinn

“People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.”

— Ann Tatlock

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place,…

— Anonymous

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line…

— Douglas Hurd

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by…

— Neil Gaiman

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but…

— John Burnside

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps…

— Leo Strauss

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit…

— Queen Elizabeth II