Empty shell Quote by Tom McCarthy

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Once guns were made, who would unmake them? Barrels rested on shoulders and bristled like pincushions above the crowd. There were things, like spoken…

— Hugh Howey

“Guns were the symbols of judgment and power, so that those who were expected to exercise power and judgment had to wear them and…

— Sean McMullen

“..."Charming people, when not actively shooting one another," a friend had once said, which was so unkind, but, like so many unkind comments, had…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely…

— Julian Barnes

“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing…

— Howard Zinn

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“guns were a complicated business, and once you pointed a weapon at someone, especially someone with a weapon of his own, the thing you…

— Paul Auster