Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it se...
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human histor...
I have no history but the length of my bones.
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and s...
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.
