Able Quote by John G. D. Clark

We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.

— Bill Shorten

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

— Peter J. Carroll

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a…

— Harry S. Truman

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities…

— James Fallows

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

— Robert Redford

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage…

— Michael J. Gelb

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

— Eric Maisel

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we…

— Felix Adler

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

— John C. Maxwell