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History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.