History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
Carl Fogaty: You almost believe in your own crap, don't you?
Doris Vinyard: I'm ashamed that you came out of my body.
If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!
If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built u...
You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise...
The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per sē, or that a more refined version of it cannot work effectively. Nor does it mean the world should move toward socialism...
Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...
...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world ...
[Donovan wants Indy to get the Grail] Walter Donovan: You could go down in history. Indiana Jones: As what? A Nazi stooge like you? Walter Donovan: The Nazis? Is that the limit of your vision? The Nazis want to write themselves into the Grail legend,...
In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only ...
I'm a golfer not a history major.
Apostasy was the major justification for terminating internal opposition throughout the history of Islamic empires. That is why we have heard of whole tribes and groups being eradicated for apostasy. Muslim philosophers, mathematicians and scientists...
