“History, he thought, is the study of men and women who rise to extraordinary events. It is, over and over, an examination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The people are a story that never ends, A river that winds and falls and gleams erect in many dawns; Lost in… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
In recent years, our planet has been warming at an alarming rate and seen record-breaking temperatures. We are now witnessing the sixth… — Catherine Cortez-Masto Copy Share Image
Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who… — Philip K. Chapman Copy Share Image
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to… — Wences Casares Copy Share Image
“The historian, Toynbee, has said: “The Primitive Arabs who were the ruling element of the Umayyad Caliphate called themselves ‘the swarthy people’… — Aylmer Von Fleischer Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
“Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I moved to Seattle, oftentimes I was the only Native kid in my class. So would be put on the spot,… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart -… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
“The concept of risk and risk assessments has a long history. More than 2400 years ago the Athenians offered their capacity of… — Terje Aven Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people… — Steve Wilkos Copy Share Image
![“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic…” quote by George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/545/george-packer-2917_9-11_t-he-enduring-problem-for-liberals-as-fo_3141831.jpg)
