“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how… — James B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood,… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Companies with historical connections to slavery must take ethical responsibility by funding housing programs and grant programs that uplift underserved communities. This… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to be with someone like Kate. She’d demand more from me than anyone ever had before, and that… — Nicole Jacquelyn Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Hukum Islam tidak mempunyai dasar ke-Islam-an (apalagi dasar Qur'an). Hukum Islam adalah hukum Rumawi-Barat, Bizantium, Parsi dan lain-lain yang dipadu, tetapi tidak… — Gustave E. Von Grunebaum Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In telling these stories of our Nation's past, however, let's not be so zealous in correcting liberal historians that we create our… — Gregg Harris Copy Share Image
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Suffering must be obviously futile if it is to be 'educational'. It is for this reason that our history is so unintelligible,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Historical accounts of philosophy deal with both the chronological development of ideas over time and the timeliness of those ideas in response… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
“After the dedication, Eleanor saw Bernard privately, probably at her own request. He came prepared to offer more spiritual comfort, thinking that… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where… — Frank Scott Copy Share Image
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people cannot afford to believe that this country isn’t that bad, that as Hillary Clinton said, “America is great because America… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“Evil is never intended as evil. Indeed, the contradiction inherent in all evil is that it originates in the desire to eliminate… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
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