The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its… — Pindar Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Manchester United and Liverpool were the teams I watched quite a lot in England. They were the two that I'm a little… — Timo Werner Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I… — Nivin Pauly Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Malaysia is we are subconsciously trying to erase our past. The history beyond the prescribed narrative of The Alliance… — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
“To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shooting in Jaipur was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is culturally quite rich, and each part of… — Shaheer Sheikh Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . .… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
