Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Captain Ramius: A great day comrades, we sail into history!
Brand: Well we got this far, further than any human in history. Cooper: Well not far enough!
Jack Horner: We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape.
People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history.
... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..." Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itself In its way of existing.
1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person’s knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured: as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?
