“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christians have always dissented through history... and inevitably, when persecution of free speech comes it always comes against the people who have… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Of course, if you have D. Wade on your team, he's the best closer in the history of this sport, so the… — Goran Dragic Copy Share Image
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Politicians are trying so hard to run away from having the same problems you are having. They don't want to spend money… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“On April 1, armed SA men took up positions in front of Jewish businesses and tried to prevent customers from spending money… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
“As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — William Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Why is London particularly attractive for artists? It's partly this incredible concentration of organizations that have a long history but also the… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
History repeats itself again I guess the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at… — Thorsten Heins Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian… — Ysabeau S. Wilce Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court - or any Supreme… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent,… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
You go to the cosmologists and ask how they tell the history of the universe; you go to the geologists, how do… — David Christian Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
