History Quote by Michelle Alexander

“The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, "We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were…

— Michelle Alexander

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.”

— Ken Breniman

“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power”

— Neil Postman

“The most interesting aspect of this culture of repudiation has been the attack on the central place accorded to reason in human affairs by…

— Roger Scruton

“The old culture reflected fundamental human needs while respecting natural limits. And it worked. It worked for nature, and it worked for people. The…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual,…

— Nick Cohen

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison