One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries' appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.
There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves
Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.
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?
[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his right scratching his head, his white hair gleaming in the lamplight. I knew that when he was studying he was thinking...
Termite, you're young, and I'm not sure if you're going to understand what I'm about to say, but here's the nugget: Without the heart, nothing else matters. She could be the Goddess of Love, you could have all the mind-blowing sex you could physicall...
When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership society. He rejected the dogma that high-ranking men - in Jesus'...
Like Goethe's offers a wide panorama of scenes from the vulgar to the sublime, with passages of wondrous poetry that can be sensed even through the veil of translation. And it also preserves the iridescence of its modern theme. From it Oswald Spengle...
Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cran...
