Age Quote by Sydney J. Harris

“The first and oldest of these traditions is tribe-like politics. I use the term “tribe-like” to refer to a pre-modern form of political interaction…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“What we will see time and again is the way preexisting concepts and institutions in ancient Near Eastern culture are reworked according to a…

— Joshua A. Berman

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Though we recognize distinct cultural differences across time and place, the commonalities warrant our attention. To think about how these ancient commonalities need to…

— John H. Walton

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

— Unita Blackwell

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

— Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal…

— Isaac Mayer Wise

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each,…

— Anonymous

“The incompatibility here [between some anthropologies] rests with basic attitudes toward cultural others, which in turn rests on fundamentally different understandings of history. The…

— William Roseberry

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with…

— Christopher Dawson

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when…

— Timothy Leary