Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" "To get my Bible." "Right now? You can't get your Bible out right now! I'm, I'm, we're just… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“She was in big trouble now. "You stupid man," she said to the body on the floor. "Why did you have to… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
“The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture.… — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support… — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image