Shinichiro Watanabe Quotes

If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

Brazil has cast a firebrand into Europe

India is a geographical term. It is no more of a united nation than the equator.

India is merely a geographical expression. It is no more a single country than the Equator

Geography determines the course of history.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

I'm from Lebanon, and I've been exposed a lot to Syria.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

As a Canadian, I've always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions - those were made by actors who are also major figures within national historical traditions for American and British scholars.

I don't like the fact that there are so few Russians in Hollywood, but it is understandable because of the historic relationship between America and Russia - the Cold War history, for example. It is kind of a cliche, but it's still with us.

Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century.