Remco Evenepoel Quotes

The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.

History must not be treated as something set off by itself.

In politics you have to say, compared to what?

History is not a blueprint for present practice.

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.