The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruin

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
History
category

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. Im innocent. Youve got to believe Im innocent. If you dont, take my job. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
History

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. – Vladimir Putin

Category:
History

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

Category:
History

History is politics projected into the past. – M.N. Pokrovsky

Category:
History

Random Quotes

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
God

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

Category:
Age

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it. – Steve Harvey

Category:
God

A father and two sons run Adelphia. Its a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? Lets send the monkey to Mars, Dad! – Lewis Black

Category:
dad