“It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise… — Nick Symmonds Copy Share Image
“Human salvation is directed toward God's intention to restore individuals, communities, and the world as the kingdom of God continues to break… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“Ancient historians like Josephus the Jew, Berosus the Chaldean, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus (Josephus even mentions these last… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad… — O. J. Mayo Copy Share Image
“They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days.… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth… — D. A. Fisher Copy Share Image
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
“In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead… — Col. Thomas Aspinwall Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Why so many mentions regarding Jesus from such a wide variety of sources (Pliny, Tacitus, Lucian, Josephus, to name a few)? Because… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I told a potential girlfriend I had known for several months that I had been really sick for years and had recovered,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin.… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two… — John Perry Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image