“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is probably no mere historical accident that the word person, in its first meaning, is a mask. It is rather a… — Robert Ezra Park Copy Share Image
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer… — Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer Copy Share Image
“What unites conservatives and modernizers and young and old, is a hunger not for freedom but for justice; for genuine rule of… — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
“Every dictator in history has made that same speech, Bob. Hitler thought he was fighting for the greater good, too. Isn’t it… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I wanted to know what our family's stories were. I wanted to know the things Mom wouldn't think to tell me. Things… — Adib Khorram Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Even among Sedlacek's own small cell, his Viennese anti-Nazi club, it was not imagined that the pursuit of the Jews had grown… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The one thing that Airbnb had was, Brian and Joe were designers, and they did a great job. They also had Nate… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina,… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
“What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole?… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I enjoyed 13 successful seasons at Anfield, becoming the most decorated goalkeeper in league history. But I believe the match-fixing scandal arose… — Bruce Grobbelaar Copy Share Image
“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
“on page 149 of 476 on From Beirut to Jerusalem : " Kumohon pada setiap burung yang lewat untuk mengatakan kerinduan dan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regarding the children in Israel who made the first known world change in history using the Bible Code, they left a statement… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
“Colonel Aubertin and his two colleagues sat on a park bench in the private garden of Dorset Square. Rougemont sat between his… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Pain, horror and grievances are recycled through history until we find ways to expose and accept them, truly listen to them, while… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
