I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“Colonel Olds, among many others, was of the opinion that fighter bombers carrying a single bomb flying low and fast would have… — Benton L. Bradberry Copy Share Image
“…the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
He stands behind me and gives me little pushes. We sit there in silence watching the guys goof off and Heath take… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
“Had General Soo known the history of Earth, he would have known that Peace, as currently practiced by the humans, was a… — Steven L. Hawk Copy Share Image
The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history. The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another. And… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the job market has been divided into three main sectors: agriculture, industry, and services. Up until 1800, most people worked… — GBF Summary Copy Share Image
“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness… — Miranda Wilcox Copy Share Image
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“We need not deplore the renunciation of historical truth when we put forward rational grounds for the precepts of civilization. The truths… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction… — Walidah Imarisha Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Origins and History of Consciousness III. It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger, dress, go out, drink coffee, enter a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
“When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give… — David Icke Copy Share Image
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything.… — Livy Copy Share Image