The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.” — J. Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, .… — Lawrence Stone Copy Share Image
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which… — Christopher Lasch 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
Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing. — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before... — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.” — Christine Fonseca Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
“You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.” — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse. — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
