The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
“Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's… — Capt. John Phillips circa 1723 Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)” — Gustave E. Von Grunebaum Copy Share Image
I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“History: *The owner noticed a soft, oozing mass on the head. *Mr. Snooze has been fighting with another cat recently. Assessment: *Mr.… — Marcy Blesy Copy Share Image
I'm not a guy who works only with the money. I'm not the guy who works on Wall Street. They think about… — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
It is irresponsible and shows a lack of integrity for anyone to disclose medical information regardless of how it was gathered. I… — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. — Kingoro Hashimoto Copy Share Image
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I wish I could say that we Germans have learned from our history once and for all, but I cannot say that… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
There is no existence without history, and there are few battles that mark it better than Frazier-Ali I. — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians” — stephen fry Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Lust was so delightfully uncomplicated and straightforward, while female friendships were inevitably layered with conditions, and history, and unspoken rules of behavior.” — Katharine McGee Copy Share Image
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that,… — D.L. Christopher Copy Share Image
“I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin Towers From Rape of a… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“It staggered her imagination. In one stroke, those two wild boys had changed the course of history. For fun. Her” — Terry Mancour Copy Share Image
