Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly,… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“We all know objective truth is not obtainable, that when some event occurs we shall have a multiplicity of subjective truths which… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
“The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.” — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most… — Eva Hart Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. We will find out whether or not we get six more weeks of black history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin… — Kati Marton Copy Share Image
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Absolute knowledge is an all-inclusive knowledge. If it is to be absolute, it cannot leave anything outside itself, not even error. It… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last… — James Parton Copy Share Image
“One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
