History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau… — Jamie A. Hughes Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. History suggests that capitalism… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Look where that loyalty got me. I’m stuck here trying to figure out my next move. What I’ve now learned is, going… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
The historical kings of England are all strong soldiers and leaders, but can you be a sensitive leader? It's the same in… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
“But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions -… — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
“Differing historical perspectives inevitably shape attitudes towards globalization and its sub-plots. The Western view of globalization has always been just that: a… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“In other words, Hitler's soul life was not mature enough at that moment to maintain an awareness of himself and his surroundings… — Trevor Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
Its a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was doing a fashion show, and my House Father would host fashion shows at the… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
![“I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in Lincoln in the Bardo]. It's like if you're an actor and you're always overacting, well, you're a bad actor. But if you're an actor who subdues yourself to the extent that's necessary, then…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/04f/george-saunders-317_acting_i-had-to-go-in-and-do-the-work-of-toning_347664.jpg)
![“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f41/thomas-jefferson-43_action_history-by-apprising-them-the-people-of_1568717.jpg)
