Will Durant

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Will Durant

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Will Durant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Will Durant

Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination.

Will Durant

States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.

Will Durant

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Will Durant

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Will Durant

The future never just happened. It was created.

Will Durant