Crimes of which a people is
“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” Jean Genet
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“History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” Edward Gibbon
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” Nadia Boulanger
“How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.” Albert Camus
“If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.” Reginald Blyth
“How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.” Lord Billingsley