If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
“The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.” — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that,… — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased,… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
“I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Let this place be forgotten forever. Let it be struck from the rolls of history. Let it never be spoke by man… — Skyrim Copy Share Image
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology… — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world. — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
I'm here to make history. I'm not here to get punched in the face and be just another one. — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills? — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
