Pastoral Resources

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

Grace can and does have a history.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

History has been the history of warfare.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.