“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
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The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously,… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if… — Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Copy Share Image
“And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The Olympics start on Friday, and Russia is implementing the most intensive security in Olympics history. During the games, the government will… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
“The United States has poured more moral energy into improving race relations than into anything else in its history. And yet, in… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Rafa is the only one player in history that it doesn't matter how he feels, bad or good. In the end he… — Andrey Rublev Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
“Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets?… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that we are in crisis at this moment in our history. Most of this comes from our individualistic… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“At the risk of being simplistic, a railway metaphor comes to mind. John Wesley's marriage was a train wreck (Wesleyan historian, Henry… — Grant Gordon Copy Share Image
History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Doreen Fernandez' foreword to "Rizal Without the Overcoat": His essays remind us that history need not and should not be relegated to… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
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