Best history & crime Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

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“The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.”

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“History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

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Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.”

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Book:The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history

Source: The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history

“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

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Author:Voltaire

“I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.”

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Author:Nadezhda Mandelstam

“What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.”

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Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

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Author:Al Capone

“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.”

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