“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history.… — Marquinhos Copy Share Image
Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was called Tinseltown for a reason and I was caught up in its glitter. My friend Ken seemed to know everyone… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns often accuse Christians of being narrow and closed-minded. But postmodernism is itself confined within a particular strand of Western intellectual history.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“As we grow in grace, we become a blessing to the world around us, and the world, in terms of its relations… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
“The word 'Indonesia' was first manufactured in 1850 in the form 'Indu-nesians' by the English traveler and social observer George Samuel Windsor… — R.E. Elson Copy Share Image
“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, he adds, the dominant castes that were ‘most successful in their attempt at conquering power managed to be recognized as… — Namit Arora Copy Share Image
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced.… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“Humanism is not science, but religion - the post-Christian faith that humans can make a world better than any in which they… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus… — Thaddeus Russell Copy Share Image
What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent,… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“As I look hard at the Bible, however, and at the two thousand years of church history since the Bible's completion, it… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm… — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
