All through history, a nation or a civilization’s enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions – the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world. – F. Sionil Jose
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history. – Marie Brennan
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. – George H. W. Bush
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. – Nathaniel Philbrick
I don’t think it’s possible to separate out the strands of a writer’s history, circumstances, life events, and that writer’s themes. – Dani Shapiro
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. – Charles Sumner
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it. – Evita Peron
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. – Noam Chomsky
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733. – Geraldine Brooks
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn’t there. It has to do with history. – P. J. O’Rourke
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fashion is not just about trends. It’s about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the ’80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. – Daphne Guinness
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. – Carl T. Rowan
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph. – David Gross
I’m not sought after. I never get enough work. It’s the history of my career. There just isn’t anything to turn down, let me put it that way. – Ed Asner
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. – Ellen Tauscher
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust. – David Novak
I’ve always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain – its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have. – Gary Numan
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. – Eric Stoltz
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic. – Eric Whitacre
Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league. – Doug Collins
I’m not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. – Eben Alexander
If I can’t find a project that I’m really interested in, I’ll just go back to college where I’ve been studying art history and French. I’m also going to study English and philosophy – the whole curriculum! – Emmy Rossum
There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn’t understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground. – David Cheriton