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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.