If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The space itself - its piles of papers representing decades of tangled history - reminded me of all that I didn't know… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“I look into Julie's face. Not just at it, but into it. Every pore, every freckle, every faint gossamer hair. And then… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Whatever else it may be, the Qur’an is no work of history. Startlingly, were it not for all the commentaries elucidating its… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
“The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in… — Gustavo Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I've had a front row seat... at the greatest stage in our history in terms of, you know, being able to watch… — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become...… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
Facebook has become the richest and most powerful publisher in history by replacing editors with algorithms - shattering the public square into… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“know. “Esther asks why people are sad. “‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
“In 1828 the British historian Macaulay dubbed the press gallery in Parliament a ‘fourth estate’ of the realm. Today the news media… — Ian Hargreaves Copy Share Image
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I said. “I’m fine. I have a little bit of a head ache, but I’m not dizzy or nauseous. I can walk… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image