There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes… — Evan Sharp Copy Share Image
More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed…this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Not even children were spared. To see history repeating itself, and the calamities of the past unfolding again, spelled out in the… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“At this time in history, sick, afraid, and despondent are the general conditions that affect the majority of poeple almost everywhere. It's… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You know, of course, that as prophesied by Moroni, there are those whose research relating to Joseph Smith is not for the… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is doubtless true that the masses have always been led in one way or another, and it could be said that… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory.… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we… — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
I took a step back, then another. Trust me it was exciting but I couldn't catch my breath. I went to take… — Jade Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history,… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
