History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.” She blinked, and… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face."I looked at… — Octavia Randolph Copy Share Image
The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
…the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card: "Plumb Cake" with currants, nutmeg, mace,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that… — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill 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
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
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
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
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
“Ridley nodded. 'She told me I couldn't ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn't be safe.' 'Safe?' Uncle… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
![“The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3db/noam-chomsky-42_analog_the-reaction-we-should-be-having-to-rich_3191465.jpg)
![“What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/920/george-saunders-317_book_what-was-fun-for-me-with-this-book-linco_1985477.jpg)
![“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] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be…” quote by Myron Coureval Fagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ef4/myron-coureval-fagan-264918_agenda-21_the-idea-was-that-those-who-direct-the-o_1673314.png)
