There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
“I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“But it requires no very profound knowledge of history to perceive that military superiority often exists distinct from social civilization, that literary… — George Finlay Copy Share Image
“the NSA databases “store information about your political views, your medical history, your intimate relationships and your activities online.” The agency claims… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
A lot of bands in music history have had titles that were easy for radio DJs. We wanted to have titles that… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable… — Robert Kirshner Copy Share Image
“History has shown very clearly that for democracy to continue, the people, and not the generals or even the executive authority, must… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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