“Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“we’re the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME… THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS… WILL BE REVEALED. 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big… — Osama A. Hashmi Copy Share Image
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
“Words like “Society” and “State” are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Wineburg: For the narcissist sees the world—both the past and the present—in his own image. Mature historical understanding teaches us to do… — John Fea Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
Villa's history doesn't frighten me. Not at all. I respect it. I actually embrace it, because I've been through it. I know… — Paul Lambert Copy Share Image
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God...Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.” — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people. — James Clapper Copy Share Image
The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“History was easy: the past with all loss burned out of it, all sorrow worn out of it—all that was merely personal… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
