“Arendt, as we have seen, is committed to understanding totalitarianism in its complete novelty, as an unprecedented phenomenon. It is unprecedented in… — Steve Buckler Copy Share Image
The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where… — David Farr Copy Share Image
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed "Oiltown." This was the site… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“It's the same hope we have to hold for humanity—that we can transform our roles, roles constructed like so many doors for… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“[New Orleans.] Katrina changed everything. Life here is different, every face altered. Yet we feel and sense the landscape not only in… — T.J. Fisher Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Ayrton and I shared a lot of incredible races, where he was first and I was second and vice-versa. I think it's… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between mythology and history?’ asked Brahmananda. The lady expressed herself in a shrug. ‘Mythology is a set… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
“I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
I've played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression.… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon 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
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
![“[New Orleans.] Katrina changed everything. Life here is different, every face altered. Yet we feel and sense the landscape not only in its hurricane-leveled, sodden depressions but — perhaps even more so now in the strangely comforting depths of our shared history. Even in the worst hit areas, not…” quote by T.J. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/t-j-fisher-82386_history_new-orleans-katrina-changed-everything-l_1214271.jpg)
