Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history,… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“No scripture comes directly from God. They are collections of rules or values or both, that were shaped by the socio-economic conditions… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
“One day this will end. In liberation, in peace, or in eradication at a scale so overwhelming it resets history. It’ll end… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
With 'Doctor Who', with the script you have, and the history, I think that people are actually playing the legend rather than… — Danny John-Jules Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I am not here to answer your questions. To answer would imply that we conceded some slight possibility of truth to your… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British,… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
“Easily he had turned studying my least favorite subject in history into my now most memorable one. Then there was his want… — Christina Marie Morales Copy Share Image
To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“For the first time in the US Forest Service's history, more than half the agency's annual appropriated budget was devoted to wildfires… — Edward Struzik Copy Share Image
“My mistress used to say that you couldn’t ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said: even if you’ve… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“History is never something carved in stone, but more like something saved to a temporary cache file on a computer disk vulnerable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe that he came because he liked me, because he saw something in me that he didn't see in… — Ryan Loveless Copy Share Image