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

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel