“What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its… — Carl Oglesby Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Forever we fight but never improve Today it is friendship, tomorrow the news That after everything is said and done We look… — Sam West Copy Share Image
“That's how history unfolds. People weave a web of meaning, believe in it with all their heart, but sooner or later the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
“Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,’ Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln,… — Noah Van Sciver Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
“In every age of human history and in every phase of daily life demons have played a tremendous and very important role.… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
As I lay me down to sleep flashbacks in the mind release. Pushing forward, images come as I fight to not come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the… — Carolyn McCarthy Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“those content to serve mediocre employers will never know – the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one’s… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image