It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The Gentle Philosopher (2006)
History has been too often a picture of the bloody stream. The history of civilization is a record of what happened on the banks. The Gentle Philosopher (2006)
Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts — between individuals in economic life, between groups in politics, between creeds in religion, between states in war. The Gentle Philosopher (2006)