Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
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