All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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