History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her… — George Wein Copy Share Image
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of vocation or calling gained currency as men began to take time and history seriously. If the goal of the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by… — Conrad Grober Copy Share Image
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college… — Anne Donovan Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“this Republicrat Junta has created the most corrupt, unanswerable, greedy system in the history of civilization, and, they are working night and… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history,… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“What do you care?” Arik Siq asked. “Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters.… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in the rich developed world (where historians flourish), well-made objects have become so much an accepted part of existence that their… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment; it is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism… — John Durant Copy Share Image
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Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Just as if Manetho's "Aegyptiaca" or the second book of Aristotle's "Poetics" reappeared, the simple fact that such a significant text as… — François Gaudard Copy Share Image
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