Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord. — Psalm 107:43 Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The teaching of honest national history is especially important, since the teaching of false, chauvinist history is the main vehicle for spreading… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII,… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
I had to be - I was in school for probably three or four years before I began taking courses in history… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best… — Hunx Copy Share Image
The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee,… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next… — Bill Buxton Copy Share Image
In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage Copy Share Image
Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements." — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
“The younger generations look at the beliefs of their parents and simply say “Pffft”. History judges us all in the end.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden... — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history. — James Carville Copy Share Image
As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It… — Joy Hakim Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
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