I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states'… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
If anything, the historical record demonstrates that great powers can inflict enormous punishment on their adversaries - with blockades, sanctions, sieges and… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“What I have here advanced is confirmed by the unanimous testimony of historians, and is extremely agreeable to the nature of things.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
In the end, 'Darkest Hour' tells the story of the near destruction of Western Civilization. 'Dunkirk' allows you to feel it in… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of… — Robert Nandor Berki Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Want a piggy back ride? Yes sir!! He crouches to give me a little help and I jump on his back. And… — Jade Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of… — James Beard Copy Share Image
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“The history of an individual is a mystery to others. It is wonderful, fascinating, and motivating if revealed. The moment you learn… — Isaac Nash Copy Share Image
It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
“Fortunately for the historian, the court to which his evidence is submitted has no fixed term; interesting cases can be argued before… — John Boswell Copy Share Image
