Pastoral Resources

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.