The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

God believes in the reality of your dreams, and so do I. But the question is, do you strongly believe in your abilities?

We can hope.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Somehow We all are Burning Ourselves as We Constantly Thinking About Our Past.

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

Eddie's up there. He's lyin' to somebody, he's cheatin' somebody, and he's stolen all of our hearts.