Logo
Quote by John Acton
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. – John Acton

Other quotes by John Acton

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. – John Acton

Category:
History
Author
John Acton
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. – Friedrich August von Hayek

Category:
History

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. Were a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. – Madeleine Albright

Category:
History

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
History

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. – Carroll Quigley

Category:
History

Random Quotes

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. – Jean Genet

Category:
great

Do not say, It is morning, and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. – Rabindranath Tagore

Category:
Morning

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Truth

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. – Desiderius Erasmus

Category:
Quotations