I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. – C. L. R. James
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History’s first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. – Armstrong Williams
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. – Barney Frank
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. – Conrad Hall
‘The Others’ books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world’s history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive. – Anne Bishop
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. – Ahmed Zewail
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. – Abraham Lincoln
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. – Alma Guillermoprieto
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. – Barry Ritholtz
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. – Bill Moyers
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology. – Alison Gopnik
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. – Bernard Williams
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war. – Asif Ali Zardari
I get people to this day – I won my title 25 years ago – saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight. – Barry McGuigan
It’s a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was ‘real’ religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that’s why it’s completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices. – Ann Leckie
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. – Bruce Jackson
You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors. – Anne Wojcicki
You know, it’s very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev – beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam. – Alexander Haig
‘Straight Outta Compton’ was such a great movie, and obviously, I’m in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie. – Bebe Rexha
Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I’m working in the middle of movie history is incredible. – Betsy Beers
