“Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an… — Dacid McCullough Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The… — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely… — Mccann Colum Copy Share Image
“The most important impact of script on human history is precisely this: it has gradually changed the way humans think and view… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“IN THE MOST CRUCIAL EVENTS IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY, God takes considerable pains to ensure that no one can properly conclude that these… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer,… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“1.Payment history (35 percent)—Paying on time is the criterion. Missing payments hurts you here. 2.Debt (30 percent)—How much debt do you have?… — Cary Siegel Copy Share Image
“I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road… — George Whitman Copy Share Image
“Words are the only things in this universe, which never become old and if these become old then make history . Impact… — Naveen Mishra Copy Share Image
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
