Quote by Julien Benda
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. – Julien Benda

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda

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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts

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