In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
“…the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
He stands behind me and gives me little pushes. We sit there in silence watching the guys goof off and Heath take… — Jade Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked… — Greg Noll Copy Share Image
Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“At what point in the history of Letheras, he wondered, did rampant greed become a virtue? The level of self-justification required was… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love);… — John D. Zizoulas Copy Share Image
The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Copy Share Image
“For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“One night when the moon was full, I explained to you about how the moon controls the tides, and you said I… — Sarah Bower Copy Share Image
“More surprising, perhaps, was that I began to understand something important about humans and trees at that moment. I began to understand… — M.O. Walsh Copy Share Image
“When recruiters, co-workers, old classmates, and other people Google your name and click on a link to you on LinkedIn, your profile… — Melanie Pinola Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold… — Rex Alan Smith Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Over and over the question addressed to Jesus arises in the history of the church: 'Lord, will those who are saved be… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything.… — Livy Copy Share Image
The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image