“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we… — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
I took a step back, then another. Trust me it was exciting but I couldn't catch my breath. I went to take… — Jade Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“At this time in history, sick, afraid, and despondent are the general conditions that affect the majority of poeple almost everywhere. It's… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Not even children were spared. To see history repeating itself, and the calamities of the past unfolding again, spelled out in the… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You know, of course, that as prophesied by Moroni, there are those whose research relating to Joseph Smith is not for the… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is doubtless true that the masses have always been led in one way or another, and it could be said that… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“What I have here advanced is confirmed by the unanimous testimony of historians, and is extremely agreeable to the nature of things.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
In the end, 'Darkest Hour' tells the story of the near destruction of Western Civilization. 'Dunkirk' allows you to feel it in… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of… — Robert Nandor Berki Copy Share Image
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
