History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
quote by Edward Gibbon
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
quote by Edward Gibbon
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
quote by William S. Paley
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
quote by Voltaire
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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
quote by Pierre Bayle
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Hanging from the hillside is a cow soon to be tipped God is watching
History of mankind is a history of horrors Ba Humbug
Just a casual reminder that fish and guests stink after three days
Poster child for perpetual irritation a long-tailed macaque
For the misfortunes of Poland are proof of God's existence
poem by Ilham Ahmed
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The Winners Write The History
That the winners write the war histories should not be the case
For war is a tragedy a human disgrace
And the losers in war see their Country destoyed
And the war history never written by the losing side.
Look at Oliver Cromwell victorious in war
The deeds of his glory from England known far
But those who write on Cromwell they never do tell
Of one who for poor people made life Earthly hell.
To the Catholics of Ireland Cromwell was a brute
The poor rural peasants he did persecute
Yet streets in his honour distant from England today
The winners only write the history so true what they say.
Efrain Rios Montt became President of Guatemala even though he
Was guilty of serious crimes against humanity
An old man now but for his crimes yet to pay
The winners write the history it's always been that way.
Augusto Pinochet in Chile has blood on his hands
And that he may die a free man seems hard to understand
And though loathed by many in Chile for his crimes of shame
The winners write the history and their's is the fame.
I've just mentioned a few for there are many more
Who have committed crimes against humanity but like it has been said before
that the winners write the history and that's how 'twill remain
And the mistakes of the past are repeated again.
poem by Francis Duggan
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The War Winners
The war winners always write the war history and as for those in war who have known defeat
They never do know of adulation and with a sad ending they meet
Arrested and tried for war crimes and executed for crimes against humanity
The victorious war leaders are feted as heroes though they seem no less guilty to me
Than those who are known as war losers in war far too many do die
And that the victorious of war crimes not guilty in truth of course only a lie
How can the one who order the bombings that killed thousands of people be seen as one quite free of taint
When they are guilty of mass murder and a murderer cannot be a saint
Why do we make heroes of villians two wrongs never do make a right
Though the winner is always the hero that's how it is in every fight
And the war dead with tears are remembered and the war mothers weep for their dead
Though their dead children helped to win the war and good things of them have been said.
The war winners write the war history that's how it is and it will always be
But history itself keeps repeating of war will we ever be free
If the victorious war leaders were not treated as heroes and for their war crimes arrested and tried
We may not have had war in the first place and so many young people may not have died.
poem by Francis Duggan
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visiting Hiroshima
1>Peace Memorial Museum.
two buildings
the museum surveys the history of Hiroshima
and the advent of the nuclear bomb.
main focus August 6; the dropping of the bomb
and its outcome in human suffering
personally it upset me
2.Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims
Between the Museum
and the A-Bomb Dome
an arched tomb
for those who died
because
initial blast
and then
of exposure to radiation
3. The Register
Below the arch is a stone chest
holding a register
of these names,
there
are over 220,000
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Laugh or Weep, Weep or Laugh
Those masks of Comedy and Tragedy
that hang over theatre doors and stages
go back to those two Greek philosophers,
the one, who wept at the follies of mankind,
the other, who laughed at those same follies…
In order to justify the invasion of Iraq
in 2003, on the other grounds to ‘regime change’,
i.e. that Iraq had ‘wep-ma-struc’ in Bush-speak,
the federal government has made public
48,000 boxes of papers captured from Iraq.
These include instructions on how
to make an atomic bomb.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
quote by Karl Popper
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
quote by Karl Popper
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
quote by Steve Lacy
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I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
quote by Mike Tyson
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The Ultimate Wisdom
Philosophers
must ultimately find
their true perfection
in knowing all
the follies of mankind
-by introspection.