“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford Copy Share Image
“Livy: Don’t you ever wonder what else is out there…beyond the farm? Ray: Sometimes Livy: Aren’t you curious how other people lived?… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that… — Greg Dening Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I somehow managed to find my way without even paying attention. I stood in the center looking at the trees surrounding it.… — Jade Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration.… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
“I need, therefore I dream. I take risks and sometimes I am hurt. But without risks there is no life. I have… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He said slowly, “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Clarence Darrow, one of history's greatest lawyers, once noted "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court." Perhaps… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to travel the world - like Egypt. I love history. That's my favorite subject at school. From the building of… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
![“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the press that they still didn't know who did it. He said they had suspicions. The suspicions were that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan but…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/noam-chomsky-42_bin-laden_eight-months-after-9-11-after-the-most-i_858606.jpg)
![“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b54/bill-mckibben-1057_average_fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john_2619536.jpg)
![“[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.” quote by Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/paul-krugman-2255_barack_i-f-you-look-at-united-states-history-si_1148835.jpg)
