The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking… — John F. Kerry 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
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“If my brother, Dægan, was still alive to herald this moment, I know he would have something poetically moving to say. But… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Behind The Curtain of the Night is a life after death movie and it is based on a best-selling novel in the… — Massimo Dobrovic Copy Share Image
“Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were… — Kimberley Griffiths Little Copy Share Image
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all… — Frank A. Vanderlip Copy Share Image
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