“A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.” — Joseph P. Sekula Copy Share Image
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
If are successful all of our future plans , then the word death will become history — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not… — E Frank Tupper Copy Share Image
The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the… — Megan McKenna 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
As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I represent the small minority who's past is deleted and who's history is forgotten” — David Sikhosana Copy Share Image
“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive. — Francis James Grimke Copy Share Image
“He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History.” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions. — Horst Seehofer Copy Share Image