Many historians will tell you that there are no laws of history and no great cycles that govern human events. History often… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“I understood we were now left all on our own in a country heading into the unknown and prepared constantly for war.… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
“Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“When the archeologists find this place they'll destroy history. Mankind will attempt to bury this information but we will ensure there is… — Poppet Copy Share Image
During Black History Month, we not only should celebrate those who have made North Carolina a better place to live for everyone,… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in… — William Guarnere Copy Share Image
Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Why would I talk about the past when I got a bright future? What kind of money is the past gonna make… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision… — William Barr Copy Share Image
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
There's nothing cutting edge about what I'm trying to do. I'm not creating a new sound. I'm not like Bjork, who's an… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes taking part in a great battle will be the thing that will help to change the course of history. But sometimes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“At dusk in the Temple Gardens the barrier between past and present turned fluid and ghosts walked. Here and there if Buckler… — S.K. Rizzolo Copy Share Image
“The record must be hurled like a stone under history's wheel in order to stop it... One can lose all hopes except… — Gustawa Jarecka Copy Share Image
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image