History
Boyd C. Purcell wrote: " ... Hitler, who started the war, was responsible for approximately 50 million deaths as a result of the Second World War. Throughout recorded history of the world, dictators driven by anger, power, greed, pride, and/or paranoia have killed far more than 100 million people. Just in the last century, to name a few of the most well known: Stalin of the Soviet Union, Mao of China, Hirohito of Japan, Kim Il Sung of North Korea, Pol Pot of Cambodia, Amin of Uganda, Mussolini of Italy, and Hussein of Iraq have collectively slaughtered tens of millions of people."
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all, we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)