Quotes of: Hannah Keyword

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Alison Weir

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Hannah and Her Sisters

Anna gave her that disjointed look with which so many people regarded Hannah, as if they has fallen too many words behind to ever catch up.

Love by the Morning Star

Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

The Queen's Fool

I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite comp...

Thomas P.M. Barnett

When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

Stanley Hauerwas

Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country A doesn't attack Country B any more.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challen...

Drew Gilpin Faust

Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs th...

Hannah Storm

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do ...

Stuart Scott

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Drew Gilpin Faust

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last c...

Arthur L. Herman

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was c...

Thomas Frank

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, m...

John Henrik Clarke

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Robert Dallek