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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.