Robert Jackson Bennett Quotes

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. … it's vanity.

Just because you won the War doesn't mean you can do whatever you like!' says Yaroslav. 'And just because we lost it doesn't mean you can strip us of everything we value!

...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It's time to be honest about what the world really was, and what it is now.

History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

Life is full of beautiful dangers, dangerous beauties... They wound us in ways we cannot see: an injury ripples out, like a stone dropped in water, touching moments years into the future.