A Quote by Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Pierre Bayle

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Voltaire

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Washington Irving

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

Hans F. Sennholz

When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.

Warren Farrell

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Murray Rothbard

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.

Rush Limbaugh

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Anthony Daniels

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

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