“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go,… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of Friend You are - Without making me realize My soul's anguished history, You slip into my house… — شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī Copy Share Image
.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We're moving into sudden history now, baby. That life men lead and women disavow, that sure and certain sense that nothing is… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“If you can read this, then surprise! You're probably a demigod too. That's because only demigods - and a few special mortals,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
“I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share… — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
“Don’t you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don’t know. Really, I’m not sure how… — Victor Gischler Copy Share Image
China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“Don't find a nice guy. You'd get bored, and he wouldn't know what to do with you. So... yeah, be pissed at… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities in our times. History repeats itself,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“You see, Mr. Vidón, back in the day in Venezia, anyone could disguise themselves in a bauta mask: ricco o povero, uomo… — Carlos Hernandez Copy Share Image
“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor… — George Bailey Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
