“The top centile is a particularly interesting group to study in the context of my historical investigation. Although it constitutes (by definition)… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history,… — George Will Copy Share Image
“If you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
I love Baltimore because it is such a diverse city with a lot of history. Not only can you experience all four… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
“Who am I trying to fool? I'm well aware that at every stage of history there have been crimes against humanity, and… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event.… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair,… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It’s much the same dilemma that a future historian would face if he had to depict the social world of twenty-first-century teenagers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Individuals need accurate information in cancer prevention and guidance tailored to their specific medical history. They will not get it unless our… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We know, in history, people are unable to put different elements together and create gold, yet it's what you're asking actors to… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Italy still has a provincial sophistication that comes from its long history as a collection of city states. That, combined with a… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in… — Peter Lee Copy Share Image
Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the "best men," as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they… — Toni Duggan Copy Share Image
I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling… — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
