You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet… — Lori Majewski Copy Share Image
Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason,… — Antony C. Sutton Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“When they enter the classroom, however, they may well discover that the algorithms have got there first. Companies such as Mindojo are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
“I have no definable history before I was abandoned and taken in by the orphanage in Hong Kong. I truly am a… — Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen Copy Share Image
No Malcom X in my history text, why is that? 'Cause he tried to educate and liberate all blacks. Why is Martin… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to… — Gilles Dauvé Copy Share Image
Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
When I was in France, I'd buy books about the history of the Cannes Film Festival, with all those images of the… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“This travelling was never about gaining merit or the absolution of sins. It was always the journey that mattered, and what these… — Charles Allen Copy Share Image
You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The wives of Henry VIII are too big to be left to chick lit. Their importance is the impact they have on… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in… — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch Copy Share Image
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
“You can be okay here, Tash. If you’re getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You’re looking… — Susan Fanetti Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“there's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The history of the sexual vanguard in America was a long list of people who had been ridiculed, imprisoned, or subjected to… — Emily Witt Copy Share Image
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
