#history

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#united-states

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #history #literature #literature-quotes

One night when the moon was full, I explained to you about how the moon controls the tides, and you said I was like the moon and you were the sea, always following me about. And I said nothing, because I knew it was truly the other way around. ↗

— Sarah Bower

#history #historical-fiction

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history. ↗

— Frank Harris

#love

The Noblest form of Affection ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #male #men #passion #love

The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fun-quotes #quotable #love

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived. ↗

— Aporva Kala

#history #past #love

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin. ↗

— Victoria Collins

#history #intrigue #life #love #love

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. ↗

— Dave Barry

#native-americans #us-history #men

History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#history-politics #peacekeepers #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational