Poland in Antiquity/baltic Peoples

Famous quotes containing the words poland, antiquity and/or peoples:

    It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.
    Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)

    Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
    But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)