“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British… — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Seriously, you’re so old. What did people do for dates when you were a puppy? If you club me over the head… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
“Through nature, philosophy has been explained throughout history. The sting of a scorpion or the bite of a spider can kill the… — M.B. Watson Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t… — Rynn Berry Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But then I turn around as soon as I hear Dallas come towards me. I put my hands up. Stark is up… — Jade Copy Share Image
“And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the first place the process of disintegration was a slow one, for the whole tempo of life was slow and what… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
I grew up thrifting with my mother, it's in my blood. I love mixing something cool with something that has a history… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
“It’s Christmas, and no matter what historical usage you choose to assign to “mass” be it mission or Lord’s Supper, Christ’s Mass… — William Branks Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
The whole point here, and the seed that JJ Abrams laid in my mind is, is the power of curiosity enough? What… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I was going to up until that last entry. Reading it all just reminded me how much we felt, how much we… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.'… — C. Smoryński Copy Share Image
“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don't know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did… — Frank Butcher Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“There is no problem about changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d7a/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_a-ll-that-we-call-human-history-money-po_2669261.jpg)
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![“The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don't know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fb2/bill-maher-211_affair_the-people-in-the-usa-are-not-very-well_2551709.png)
