"To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future."
― Daisaku Ikeda
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History
― Daisaku Ikeda
More From Daisaku Ikeda
- "Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented."
- "Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives."
- "We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history."
More In History
- "With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much."― Jon Meacham
- "I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I’m writing about women, I think I’m writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history."― Jeffrey Eugenides
- "The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better."― Shimon Peres