“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system,… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
It's not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
“Memorable among the Saxon warriors were Hengist and his wife (? or horse), Horsa. Hengist made himself King in the South. Thus… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage.… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of reasons for Daniel and me to be impossible. History has not been kind to two boys who love… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar Copy Share Image
“Who we’re told to be carries the weight of history behind it. We may not like it but we better know it.… — Mel Ash Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
At the end of your career, you go, 'I'm gonna be able to retire undefeated and be one of the very, very… — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“The problem was acutely described in 1909 in a penetrating essay by Adolf Schlatter: According to the sceptical position, it is true… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Now, even though it be neither necessity nor caprice, history, for the authentic reactionary, is not, for all that, an interior dialectic… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he… — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Hermione?” “Hmm?” “I’ve been thinking. I--I want to go to Godric’s Hollow.” She looked up at him, but her eyes were unfocused,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Community as belonging . . . Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image