The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was… — Izabel Goulart Copy Share Image
“She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
What's so bad about Google knowing I need Kleenex? Look at it in the aggregate - see how information... can be used… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Can you tell the guys I'm sorry.. Yes ma'am sure can, would you like a escort? Yes. He stuck out his arm… — Jade Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
“We’re at a crossroads in human history. The digital age has unearthed unprecedented access to information and connection, but it has also… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth .… — David Toscana Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation.… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“On the way home from school, we stop off for a slice of pizza -- Phoebe's treat. She says there's an upside… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“They will wake up one morning and realize their civilization has been pulled out from under them, inch by inch, dollar by… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Yes, we need action to deal with online hatred and abuse. But let's make sure there are clear safeguards, or history will… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents… — Ruben Aguilar Copy Share Image
My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image