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
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
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
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
“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
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“When someone sees something old they think it’s worth more than something new.” I’ll give them that. The history, imagining who might… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and… — Clifford Geertz 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
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
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect. — Manuel Neuer Copy Share Image
History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Curators and archivists at local museums can play a significant role in bringing this difficult history home, a commitment that is sometimes… — Paulette Regan Copy Share Image
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. — N. K. Jemisin 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
The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people. — James Clapper 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 Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around. — W. Kamau Bell 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
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
“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
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
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
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