The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.