The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The reality is that I love WWE and they represent so much of wrestling in its history. But they've just made a… — Paul Walter Hauser Copy Share Image
This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There's one important question humanity has asked throughout history that no longer needs to be asked! Are there other intelligent beings out… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Let the Wall Street wolves and their prostitute press howl, the people will sustain you and history will vindicate you. — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“History being a funny thing, TSR’s Book Department in turn would lead directly to TSR’s downfall, 10 more years down the road.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward” — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers.… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though:… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
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