Jan Morris Quotes

History develops, art stands still.

The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? … Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.