All history is contemporary history.
This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.