The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Disobedíience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is mans original virtue. It is through disobediíence that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
What is love? In math, its a problem. In history, its a battle. In science, Its a reaction. But in my heart,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it,… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“what if you split the world into pieces and called them countries declared ownership on what never belonged to you and left… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I prefer to hunt where I understand the conservation history and the complexities of what's happening on the ground. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The Trump Administration has a history of setting up a tariff exemption process that gives preference to donors and millionaires who can… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process… — Belinda Johnson Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
History is filled with examples of players moving between rival clubs and I can't rule out clubs due to where I might… — Nicklas Bendtner Copy Share Image
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're writing historical fiction, you are always looking for the untold story. You're looking for what has been repressed politically, or… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
