“For years, the suspicion that Mr. Putin has a secret fortune has intrigued scholars, industry analysts, opposition figures, journalists and intelligence agencies… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
“If we live in a world of states, and if out-of-state existence is impossible, then we all must live as national citizens.… — Wael B. Hallaq Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we… — August Sander Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“Though Israel is charged with engaging in genocide against Palestinians, in the last 20 years, the number of Palestinians has doubled; and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“If there is one leader to whom most Chinese people express gratitude for improvements in their daily lives, it is Deng Xiaoping.… — Ezra F. Vogel Copy Share Image
When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“Maps of the world are whitewashed, history of the world is whitewashed, ethics of the world are whitewashed, knowledge of the world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image