Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 574-75
“…The king struck Hemu with his sword and he won the title of Ghazi…”
Hemu (1501–1556) General and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri
Tarikh-i-Akbari of Muhammad Arif Qandhari, translated into English by Tanseem Ahmad, Delhi, 1993, p. 74. Quoted in S. R. Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583
“After a great war, history is written by the victors and legends develop which glorify them.”
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
from p. 35 of "The Third Reich and The Atomic Bomb [Review of The Virus House by David Irving]" in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Pp. 34-35, June 1968), translated from the German by Margaret Seckel.
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) Japanese Marshal Admiral
Statement to Japanese cabinet minister Shigeharu Matsumoto and Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe, as quoted in Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) by Ronald Spector. This remark would later prove prophetic; precisely six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy would suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Midway, from which it never recovered.
Depuis que la machine à vapeur est la reine du monde, un titre est une absurdité, mais enfin, je suis affublé de cette absurdité. Elle m'écrasera si je ne la soutiens. Ce titre attire l'attention sur moi.
Source: Armance (1827), Ch. 14
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
And victory will be bestowed on them."
[5, 57, 1]
Sunni Hadith
“A good title is the title of a successful book.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
Norodom Ranariddh (1944) Cambodian politician
[Vong Sokheng, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-pm-rules-out-return, Former PM rules out return, 20 October 2010, 29 August 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Nostradamus book Les Propheties
Les Propheties (1555), Preface
Context: If I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.
