34 quotations in Society, History, Progress in English
"A society that wants to build the future must know its past, its real past, as it was. If I—a living witness, one who experienced those times—don't speak about them, then others who did not experience or witness those times will invent their own version of them."
Anatoly Rybakov
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Studies
"History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes."
"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history—that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man."
"If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed."
Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher Thoughts
"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut; they couldn't hear the barbarians coming."
"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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