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“History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.”

People Want Strong Teach History Weak Ignorant Enlightened Ignorant People

Book:Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

“Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.”

Men Art Philosophy Known Christianity History Ignorant Servant

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.”

Men Done Past History Gone Importance Ignorant Women In History

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.”

People Thinking Men Made History Hero Ten Mass Ignorant One Man Historian Earthquakes Hero Worship

Book:The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts

Source: The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts

“The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.”

May Stills Law Desire Humanity Natural Justice History Safety Obligation Doctrine Ignorant Consideration Urgent Violation Roman Empire Very Positive Public Safety

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: