Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise… — Clarence Francis Copy Share Image
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself — Peter the Great Copy Share Image
Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
