The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In ancient times, the historians took pride on themselves that they were lucky for getting the opportunity to write the history of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Educating the Educators (Sonnet 2281) Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town,… — Franz Werfel Copy Share Image
“History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
“Radicals: A Koch Family History Oddly enough, the fiercely libertarian Koch family owed part of its fortune to two of history’s most… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We have more 'things per person' than any other nation in history. Closets are full, storage space is used up, and cars… — Richard A. Swenson Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You can learn from your history, but you cant live in it. You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest… — Blossom Copy Share Image
“Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island’s tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and… — Carl Russo Copy Share Image
My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed -… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Stop and search has a controversial history and has not always been carried out professionally by individual officers. Liberal-minded people are right… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“Self-control has been credited with one of the greatest reductions of violence in history, the thirtyfold drop in homicide between medieval and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I'm very visual. So even for red carpets, I'll create mood boards. I love a good shared photo album and to tag… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
“The Ark disappeared from history’s pages in 597 BC, when the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon razed Jerusalem to the ground… — Dominic Selwood Copy Share Image
We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
