E.A. Freeman (19th-century English historian)

"History is past politics, and politics is present history."

Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

J.W. von Goethe, FAUST

Faust:The mob streams up to Satan's throne;
I'd learn things there I've never known.......
Mephistopheles: The whole mob streams and strives uphill: One thinks one's pushing and one's pushed against one's will.