(born 22 August 1933, British Mandate of Palestine), President of the Oxford Muse Foundation, is an English
philosopher, sociologist, historian
, writer and public speaker.
Zeldin was born in Palestine and went to school in Egypt
and at Aylesbury Grammar School
. He entered Birkbeck College, London
when he was 15, graduating in 1951. He then pursued a further undergraduate degree at Christ Church, Oxford
, before studying for his DPhil at St.
The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not 'melt the hearts' of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to think that he was changing the course of history, and that his righteousness would last 'as long as the sun and the moon'.
It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves.
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.