Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by different feats of strength throughout history. — Brian Shaw Copy Share Image
The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves… — Doug Glanville Copy Share Image
“The alternative to systematic planning is decision-making based on history. This generally results in reactive management leading to crisis management, conflict management,… — Harold R. Kerzner Copy Share Image
“There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful god zombie. Ryan O’Neal… — Kenny Powers Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I'm running late, but there's always time to scribble weird messages in guest signage books. Also, am I really late? The Catholic… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes history repeat itself with an intensions of giving you new life lesson — Simphiwe Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“When you clock the human race with the stopwatch of history, it's a new record, every time.” — Proctor and Bergman Copy Share Image
“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image