History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But history is replete with potential candidates for the presidency who waited too long rather than example of people who ran too… — Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
“They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
“As discussed in the previous chapter, direct militarization has a longer history in the United States but has been more” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“So often I wonder, do all brothers end up at Kitty Hawk? Flipping a coin to write history. One will fly. The… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when… — William James Copy Share Image
“One life and another: that’s what matters. You have to understand: history can change people, but people can change history too. Because… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
“It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia." Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked… — Otto Ray and Amelia Raht Copy Share Image
The end of Leo at Barcelona was not the best. It was a difficult time. We had to take a decision and… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books:… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Copy Share Image
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don't know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii,… — Max Holloway Copy Share Image