The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice… — Andre Trocme Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“You can be okay here, Tash. If you’re getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You’re looking… — Susan Fanetti Copy Share Image
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“there's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The history of the sexual vanguard in America was a long list of people who had been ridiculed, imprisoned, or subjected to… — Emily Witt Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
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It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
“Because what if you did let someone in? And what if they saw everything, and still walked away? Who could blame them—who… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
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It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
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Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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