Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
We are set to make very bad history.
I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.
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.