A Quote by Seamus Heaney
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass.
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.
Even when I was going through difficult times, I never really thought about relying on others.
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!
I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history
It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…
I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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