It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“A strong wind is blowing and there are little crests of foam on the waves. Look carefully at the millions of shimmering… — Gombrich Ernst H Copy Share Image
Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has “Vanity Fair” for a title, and that Vanity Fair is… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle debris for 17 days,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Those only are happy … who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
“Surprisingly, the only kings of historical times who did claim descent from David were Christians, not Jews.” — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas'… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.” — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history. — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could… — David Weber Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
