“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of… — The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“Marxism is not necessarily what Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, but whatever it is that all the warring sects believe, who… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is… — Krystelle Bamford Copy Share Image
Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in… — William Herbert Hobbs Copy Share Image
Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The people that loves God, do they also have troubles? Yes but the troubles never have them. They can have pain but… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
“She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in… — Kevin Alan Milne Copy Share Image
“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a doubt my reference point is Dani Alves. I've been an admirer of his ever since I started playing football. I've… — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
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“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Because these aren't just dresses. They're portals: ways of time-travelling without moving. A little bit of me went into each of them,… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
It's an interesting thing - that film fills in for history - because I think it's both one of the most beautiful… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“History buried becomes history repeated. A whole generation of Africans have been denied the truth of their own history, and so we… — Shailja Patel Copy Share Image
I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world.… — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
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