“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
“There's one important question humanity has asked throughout history that no longer needs to be asked! Are there other intelligent beings out… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
“The Black homosexual is hard pressed to gain audience among his heterosexual brothers; even if he is more talented, he is inhibited… — Essex Hemphill Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no… — L. Michael White Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, “Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for… — David Breashears Copy Share Image
“WARRIORS MUST LISTEN TO THEIR HEART. IN ORDER TO DO SO YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS – BUT THIS IS DIFFICULT TO… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino,… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs;… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
This is a club with a very big history, and the fans are a big part of that. There will be pressure… — Aleksandar Mitrovic Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
“While the story of Jesus is indeed the key to history, to emphasize the Gospels over the rest of the New Testament… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“I am a Roman,' he said to the king; 'my name is Gaius Mucius. I came here to kill you - my… — Livy Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“The role of the Filipino historian must be the role of all historians. There is, of course, [Filipino history], but as rule,… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
![“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. (Marx, 1963)” quote by Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7db/karl-marx-399_history_men-sic-make-their-own-history-but-they_692890.jpg)
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![“It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.” quote by David Breashears](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f6/david-breashears-81870_air_it-s-into-thin-air-there-in-print-foreve_2052890.jpg)
![“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the…” quote by Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a26/yann-martel-395_active_the-taxidermist-is-a-historian-dealing-w_1877158.jpg)
![“The role of the Filipino historian must be the role of all historians. There is, of course, [Filipino history], but as rule, the role of the historian is to tell the truth-- in so far as documents are concerned.” quote by Teodoro A. Agoncillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/788/teodoro-a-agoncillo-18516_history_the-role-of-the-filipino-historian-must_2176776.jpg)
