Able Quote by Alice Corbin Henderson

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the…

— Fred Bodsworth

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

— Fidel Castro

“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 solely on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

“Many of the more ghastly and idiotic aspects of the Great War were made possible by the coincidence of mass-production and the social religion…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going…

— Lisa Gardner

“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora”

— Colson Whitehead

She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away…

— Robert Graves

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in…

— George Washington