But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to.… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
We have huge holes in our education in the West. I think that we have little knowledge of Asian history. If you… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one… — Spook Country William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I would rather not speak with history but history came to me. It was dark before daybreak when the fire sparked. The… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is hard to remember.” “Remember what?” “All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
You are not a victim no matter what you have been through, you're still here you may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What about my eyes? I sat up a little more but my muscles protest and I wince. Jade stay in bed. I… — Jade Copy Share Image
But Johnson's Churchill-lite shtick and Theresa May's even less convincing Iron Lady routine are only even vaguely viable because they tap into… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
“A renewal movement is at work within our nation, a movement of reconciliation with God. In our nation’s short history there have… — Christian George Copy Share Image
“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“P&G excel at proactively managing their product ranges, as they have a history of divesting commodity-type brands, like Crisco and Oxydol, brands… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
