Famous quotes by Historians

"It is better to use fair means and fail than foul and conquer"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Necessity makes even the timid brave"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"Make the people sovereign, and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"In politics, people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

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