History Quote by Lyn Hejinian

“If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and…

— Jane Addams

“The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism.”

— Ilya Ilf

“We cannot shrink in disgust from our neighbour's touch because his hands, that are clean now, were once dirty. We must cultivate, all of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“And then we will understand that people cannot be possessions. And because we are both and this should not be, a new concept will…

— N.K. Jemisin

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most…

— Andrew Carnegie

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet…

— Mark Twain

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

“As a mark of opposition, many wore paper clips in their lapels. The paper clip was a Norwegian invention; the little twist of metal…

— Ben Macintyre

“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is…

— Edward O. Wilson

“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this— we can perceive that events are brought about…

— Charles Darwin

“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from…

— Olaf Stapledon