“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Leon Trotsky, Stalin's worst enemy, was far and away his most influential 20th-century interpreter, shaping the views of a generation of historians,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure. — Angus Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I became obsessed with 'Alone,' on the History Channel. It's about all these Shia LaBeouf type of people who are dropped in… — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It used to be that I was known as 'the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,' which is… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal under-educating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
In the same way that I've no desire to live in earlier historical periods, I never touch historical recipes. Most historical cooking… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
The best angles and the best stories always hinge on reality. Throughout the history of WWE, all the best storylines have a… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Our relations - the United States and Canada, that trade relationship is vitally important. There's a long history. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Max has earned all my respect, since I started fighting, before I got to the UFC. He is one of the best… — Yair Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake. — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China. — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
All the love that history knows is said to be in every rose… yet all the love that can be found in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The blood that ran through history would fill every river and ocean, but despite all the butchery, here you were.” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
