“We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL,… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
“Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. Sometimes it seems like a… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The Lord has a plan for us. It takes time. Sixty-six years is not long in historical terms. It took the United… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Dallas must have seen something on my face. Whats wrong? I couldn't help it but I glanced in Starks direction. He saw… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and… — David Gross Copy Share Image
It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in… — Vali Nasr Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is… — Richard W. Sonnenfeldt Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“We have seen too many armed conflicts. We have witnessed far too many violations of human rights. The 2014 genocide wasn't the… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are… — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
