"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
― Thomas Merton
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History
More From Thomas Merton
- "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another."
- "Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
- "The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me."
More In History
- "Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."― Eddie Bernice Johnson
- "The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working."― James McGreevey
- "Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."― Dag Hammarskjold