A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.” — Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf.… — Ronda Thompson Copy Share Image
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
“Abignades or abegnades A term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.” — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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