Explanation
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Variously Attributed I give credit to...
Category: Maxims
Lessons of History 7
"The men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage...
Confusion
"Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean...
Lessons of History 6
"Religion has many lives, and a habit of resurrection." From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant (1968,...
Bacon?
"Knowledge is power." Francis Bacon English Philosopher Akumal, Yucatan,...
Lessons of History 5
"May we take as long to fall as did Imperial Rome." From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant (1968, Simon...
Lessons of History 4
"In every age people have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt." From The Lessons of History by Will and...
English Wisdom
"America is the place where tomorrow happens." Michael Gove UK Minister of...
Treaties
"Treaties are like pie crusts... made to be broken." Vladimir Lenin and perhaps Vladimir Putin in the...
Lessons of History 3
"Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they condemned in the forces...
