This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the… — Hegel Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“The word legend comes from the Latin “legere,” which means “to read.” The word fiction comes from the Latin “fingere,” which means… — Nomi Eve Copy Share Image
The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“That, more than anything else, explains why, throughout human history, religion has been a force both for boundless good and for unspeakable… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Amitai shook his head, almost smiling, because here he was, feeling for the first time that the tragedy of European Jewry did… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable cloth by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental,… — Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“You all remember,” said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, “you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“produced a race of heroes, so not less surely did the growth of luxury and absolutism, assisted by the narrow-mindedness of a… — H. Morse Stephens Copy Share Image
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid… — George Will Copy Share Image
“The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I hate The Oscars. The Oscars make me want to throw things at the TV. In the ancient history of The Oscars,… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“History was composed of events like this and you revealed your age by how far back you could remember. Was it the… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believes in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too –… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember,… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
“Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
