Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“No segment of White Christian America has been more complicit in the nation’s fraught racial history than white evangelical Protestants.” — Robert P. Jones Copy Share Image
“The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and… — John H. Arnold Copy Share Image
“There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of… — Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Copy Share Image
“My suggestion to young people is that not only should they read about the history of science and engineering, but that they… — Warren M. Washington Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
“The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that,… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I like to say that at some point, you'll say in the history of wrestling there's nobody better than The Undisputed ERA.… — Roderick Strong Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
“Ghurman was a wise Jinni who was more than three hundred years old, and had a long history with Humans.” — Ibraheem Abbas Copy Share Image
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did! — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity's next great… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
“The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts. — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
“History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
