“But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history.… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even… — Samantha Newark Copy Share Image
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does… — Ronald L. Numbers Copy Share Image
That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin.… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it… — David Berg Copy Share Image
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image