“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just like a thief in… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that… — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
It doesn't get any better than coming to a club like this, with so much history, like Arsenal. I'm hugely proud. — Matteo Guendouzi Copy Share Image
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Marcus had never had the opportunity to pass on his questionable genes, so he would now effectively be erased from history, with… — Andrei Cherascu Copy Share Image
“But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling,… — James Caskey Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened. — T. F. Tout Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 classic “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” may have been history’s first behavioral profiler.” — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People like Cristiano are unique, they are people blessed by God. He was blessed by God and knew he would become one… — Pepe Copy Share Image
To my colleagues in Congress: serving with you has been the honor of a lifetime - particularly during some of the darkest… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“Throughout the archives, repeatedly they face the classic insinuation against victims of sexual assault. The” — Gaiutra Bahadur Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on… — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
What is love, In math it's a math problem, In history it's a battle, In science it's a reaction... But in my… — Tyga Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
