What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I can't help the way I do things its already built in my subconscious.. or maybe I should Redefine the Way I… — Trevon Sherod Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition,… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change. — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else’s. Respect it. Pay attention to… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to… — Rivaldo Copy Share Image
Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I snagged the biggest bandwagon in history. Just when the buffet stuff was running out, now I'm the 'Seinfeld' guy. Somebody up… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
“Mina held her breath as Jared's eyes flickered between them, the longest pause in the history of long pauses.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz… — Sasha Frere-Jones Copy Share Image
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
