The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is -… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Do not read 'Hard Choices' if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world's foreign policy, let alone… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
It's a historic moment for the Dalits of Punjab that party has released Dalit manifesto giving voice to their issues and concerns. — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.” — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be… — Frederick Niecks Copy Share Image
“If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history… — Lawrence lessig Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from,… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
“The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No segment of White Christian America has been more complicit in the nation’s fraught racial history than white evangelical Protestants.” — Robert P. Jones Copy Share Image
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.” — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
