Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that… — John Carey Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.” — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“A history of nightlife!--what an interesting concept. A history of a people, told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Without a doubt my reference point is Dani Alves. I've been an admirer of his ever since I started playing football. I've… — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Every previous revolutionary movement in human history has made the same basic mistake. They’ve all seen power as a static apparatus, as… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
