What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Even in those historical moments when men look back and see patriotism and sacrifice as the driving forces of history, 'the majority… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
“Every faithful act of service, every honest labor to make the world a better place, which seemed to have been forever lost… — Amy L. Sherman Copy Share Image
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they… — Eugene Davidson Copy Share Image
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
To look back at history, during WWII, Rosie the Riveter and all that, when women needed to get to work, the US… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
“The long tradition of naiveté and self-righteousness that disfigures our intellectual history, however, must serve as a warning to the third world,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the whole history of cinema, we've been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Kerala’s food evolved from the diverse people who traversed this land. The story of Kerala is closely linked to the story of… — Theresa Varghese Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
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“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“I don't like categorizing stuff, but women's roles all through history have been to act as hierophant or someone who's guarded the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
“From a historical perspective, the spiritual journey is always tragic, for it is a lonely path fit for individuals rather than for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites… — Biloine W. Young Copy Share Image
In my book 'Women of Westminster,' a history of 100 years of women MPs, I was struck by how abuse of women… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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