Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
“The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that,… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
“I also do not begrudge Hochschild his millions, although, unlike him, I have untold praise for the capitalist system that produced them… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I think a lot about the might-have-beens, the what-ifs. About the little places in history where one tiny, minute change can lead… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“You forged your own path. You listened to no one and thought you knew best. In the end, your hands were covered… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away,… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
“It can be argued that the history of the United States is an uninterrupted cavalcade of such transformative moments. Walt was a… — Leslie LeMon Copy Share Image
“So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining… — H.K. Savage Copy Share Image
What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Vast historical changes in the last 500 years in the West have slowly created a world in which the individual is commonly… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian’s time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult… — William Damon Copy Share Image
“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I thought in my mind. Can you hear me? He pauses then nods. I get goosebumps. I could kind of feel something… — Jade Copy Share Image
We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
