There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. But this, I hold, is an offence against every decent conception of mankind. It is hardly better than to treat the history of embezzlement or of robbery or of poisoning as the history of mankind. For the history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder. Karl Popper
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George Santayana (1863-1952) was an American philosopher and poet. He is best known for his quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This quote comes from his book, "The Life of Reason." The source of this quote is: George Santayana: the Life of Reason, and Other Essays (1905).

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