What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real… — H. L. Richardson Copy Share Image
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. — Jon Turteltaub Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
