• Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Attributed to Martin Luther (1483-1546) German professor of theology, Protestant reformer, translator of the Bible, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
  • Neutrals never dominate events. They always sink. Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
    Speech by Benito Mussolini [Il Duce] (1883-1945) Italian key figure in the creation of fascism, leader of the National Fascist Party, 40th prime minister of Italy (1922-1943), Parma, 13. December 1914
    • Blood, germs, and steel move the wheels of history. Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (*1937) US American professor of geography and physiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), anthropologist, author, transdisciplinary nonfiction book Guns, Germs, and Steel, W. W. Norton, 1997

Oil painting Historia, 1892
Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901) Greek painter

• The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life
  of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic sum-
  mation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives, we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers.
  We make our own epoch.
  Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, depth psychologist, author, The Symbolic Life. Miscellaneous Writings (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18), paragraph 1400, Princeton University Press, 1. February 1977

• All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. […] This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness, not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Michael Fordham, editor, The Structure of the Psyche (1913-1935), included in: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8, centerpiece
  On the Nature of the Psyche, Princeton University Press, 1. January 1970

• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
  George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• It is, I think, true to say that the intelligentsia have been more wrong about the progress of the war than the common people, and that they were more swayed by partisan feelings. The average intellectual of the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impres-
  sion on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an English revolution. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer, essay Notes on Nationalism, completed in May 1945

• The most liberating thing that can happen to a person is for them to become bored with their story.
  Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, A Return To Love. Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992

• Historically, major levels of development have been separated by hundreds to thousands of years, and taken that long to emerge. As for Integral consciousness, remember that
  • it's only been 40 years since the previous stage, the green [worldcentric] pluralistic postmodern stage, emerged. Forty years.
  • The stage prior to the pluralistic lasted 400 years earlier [Orange: Worldcentric, rational stage], and
  • the one before that, 4000 years. [Amber/blue: Sociocentric, mythic stage]

Monolith with bull, fox, and crane in low relief
Gobekli Tepe, Urfa, Turkey

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is
  in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck (1936-2005) US American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, People of the Lie. The Hope for Healing Human Evil, Touchstone Press, 1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 2. January 1998

• One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Where Do We Go From Here?, 1967

• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed non-
  conformists. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Cavalries. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconfor-
  ming minority.
  Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1964, On Nonconformity, 1963

• The falsification of history has done more to mislead humans than any single thing known to mankind. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) major Swiss French philosopher influencing the French Revolution, composer of 18th-century Romanticism, writer, cited in: Jawara D. King, Midst of Hell. A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Going Through, S. 243, AuthorHouse, 22. May 2012

• History is our interpretation of past thoughts that happened to be written down or otherwise preserved. We do not really study [historical] causes, but what people at the time thought were the causes. And our aim in retrieving their thoughts is not so much to explain how things happened as to understand how they seemed to have happened.
  Niall Ferguson, M.A., D.Phil. (*1964) British Harvard and Oxford historian, specialised in financial and economic history, colonialism, author, source unknown

• Feminism is one of the great liberation movements in human history. [Feminism] is the movement to liberate democracy from patriarchy. It's not a problem of women and men, it's not a battle between women and men. It's seeing the effects of patriarchy on both women and men which are different. It's seeing how much the gender binary and gender hierarchy are fueling violence and a whole set of the ethical problems that are in front of us today, because in part by blunting our capacity to know what we know and to respond to what we know.
  Video presentation by / Q&A with Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor of gender studies, psychologist, feminist, ethicist (community, relationships), writer, Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance, sponsored by The Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values MIT World, minute 1:08:04, 1:10:34 duration, recorded 24. April 2009,
  uploaded 23. December 2011

• Acknowledging that we are witness to fundamental proof of advanced civilizations dating back over 29,000 years and an examination of their societal structures forces the World to reconsider its understanding of the development of civilization and history. Conclusive data at the Bosnian Pyramid site revealed in 2008 and confirmed this year by seve-
  ral independent labs who conducted radio carbon testing dates the site at 29,400 +/-400 years minimum.
  Semir Osmanagić, Ph.D. [Sam Osmanagich] (*1960) Bosnian archeologist, principal investigator, founder and director of the Bosni-
  an Pyramids of the Sun Foundation, owner of a metalworking company in Houston, Texas, cited in: Article Anthropologist Dr. Osma-
  nagich Confirms That Recorded History is Wrong, presented by the publication vopus.org, Deborah West, 6. November 2013

20 ancient civilizations planted pyramids around the globe starting some 50,000 years ago.

• In the Bosnian tunnel system they are finding all kinds of things that come from matriarchal times some 40,000 years ago. Video Skype interview with Carmen Boulter, Ph.D. (1954-2022) Canadian professor of linguistics, Educational Research, University of Calgary, Canada, researcher on the sacred feminine in ancient Egypt and Greece, educator, author, Dr. Carmen Boulter – The Pyra-
  mid Code & The New Atlantis, JSP #3, presented by JSP radio show, host Justin Stellman, YouTube film, minute 41:40, 1:08:37 duration, posted 16. July 2016

• Issues of tension
  1. Violent extremism in all of its forms
  2. Situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world
  3. Shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons
  4. Democracy. No system of government is to be imposed upon others nations.
  5. religious freedom
  6. women's rights
  7. economic development and opportunity

• Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. [...] [T]hey live beyond the region of mortality, having chosen to fulfil the law of their being. James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish poet, novelist, influential writer in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, Stephen Hero, S. 160, Jonathan Cape, London, 1944, 1977, cited in: Alistair Cormack, Yeats and Joyce. Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition, S. 41, Ashgate Publishing, 2008

• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
  This is known as "bad luck." Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) US American science fiction writer, selection of aphorisms The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, 1978

• Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face.
  Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome.
  By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo. William Winwood Reade (1838-1875) British historian, philosopher, explorer, author, The Martyrdom of Man, 1871, University Press of the Pacific, 15. June 2004

• [Paraphrased and summarized] History is really not a matter of cause and effect. History is actually a matter of challenge and response. Response is a choice to optimize what is there in the challenging moment.
  ⚡ Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) British economic historian, advocate for the living conditions of the working classes, lifelong collaborator of Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London, A Study of History, chapter "Challenge and Response", 1934-1954, Oxford University Press, NYC, United States, reprint edition 10. December 1987

• [Paraphrased]
  1. Extreme concentration of wealth and
  2. Refusal to change when change is being called for.
  The very rigidity and resistance to change will result in collapse followed by chaos.

• [Paraphrased] War is a bad human habit that developed when resources became scarce 5000 years ago. Human natural benevolence is shed when one feels personally threatened, and when one's family and one's way of life are being threatened.
  ➢ In the 1st to 4 Great World Ages peace has been prevalent,
  ➢ in the 5th Great World Age war was the predominant way of life.
  ➢ The rising 6th Great World Age will possibly bring peace again.
  Audio interview with Gregg Braden (*1954) US American educator, pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, author, Deep Truth. Igniting the Memory of Your Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate, presented by the US American web radio station Hay House Radio,
  host Diane Ray, episode 7872, 48:00 minutes duration, aired 5. October 2011

• The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures. No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind [...]. American history raises three fundamental questions. First, can a nation rise above the injustices of its origins and, by its moral purpose and perfor-
  mance, atone for them? All nations are born in war, conquest, and crime, usually concealed by the obscurity of a distant past. The United States, from its earliest colonial times, won its title – deeds in the full blaze of recorded history, and the stains on them are there for all to see and censure:
  ➢ the dispossession of an indigenous people, and
  ➢ the securing of self-sufficiency through the sweat and pain of an enslaved race.
  Paul Johnson (1928-2023) English Jesuit, popular historian, speechwriter, journalist, author, A History of the American People, opening paragraph, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

• By their nature agricultural societies are imperialist, they're based on draw-down. Civilization follows that same pattern over and over, where
  ➤ they conquer the region,
  ➤ they gut the colonies,
  ➤ they extract what they want,
  ➤ they leave the place a desert.
  That's being going on for 10,000 years. What that means is: for 10,000 years these invading, sadistic cultures of draw-down and entitlement have come into contact with other cultures that, many of which were egalitarian, peaceful, sustainable cultures. This is the pattern for 10,000 years. In all of that time, the living example of a culture that is egalitarian and sustainable, has never once stopped the invaders. It has never once worked as a strategy. They've seen the good example. It does not change the invaders.
  History is literally the story of [those] invasions wiping out the nice people, […] [leaving] the sociopaths on top. We just need to really say this out loud. Personal example has never worked. We've gotta give this one up. There's too much at stake. Video presentation titled "Culture of Resistance" by Lierre Keith (*1964) US American outspoken feminist,
  food activist, radical environmentalist, writer, Deep Green Resistance – Strategy to Save the Planet, part 2 of 7, presented by the US American organisation Deep Green Resistance'', San Francisco, California, May 2011, YouTube film, minute 7:02-8:03, 8:06 minutes duration, posted 11. August 2011

• All ancient histories, as one of our wits has observed, are only fables that men have agreed to admit as true. Attributed to Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) French historian, philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free trade, deist, writer, fictional tale Jeannot et Colin, 1764; cited in: Quoteinvestigator

• What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general, political leader during the French Revolution, self-crowned emperor (1804-1815), Memoirs of Napoleon, undated

• History is written by the victors. there are no ancient histories other than these fables. Essay about historiography by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, L'Origine des Fables [Of the Origin of Fables], S. 329, A La Haye, Chez Gosse & Neaulme, 1724; falsely attri-
  buted to ⚡ Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, and ⚡ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general, political leader during the French Revolution, self-crowned emperor (1804-1815)