“The sad irony of all this is that the E.U. was built to prevent the very kind of nationalist fervor its economic mismanagement and political heavy-handedness are provoking now. The dustbin of history exists for a reason. And yet, and yet. It's easy for a generation that has only known peace and rela…”— Matt O'Brien, washingtonpost.com
“The experience of the Soviet Union’s working class has shown that the ways and means to free itself from war lie in the breaking out of crisis, the transformation of imperialist war into civil war (Lenin), the merciless struggle under the banner: The principal enemy is to be found in our own country…”— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, amazon.com
“Something is happening to our species, and especially over the last 70 years. The years since 1945 have seen many horrors: the partition of India, China’s Great Leap Forward, the Vietnam War, the Biafran crisis, the Khmer Rouge and the Rwandan genocide, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, mass slau…”— LEIF WENAR, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variable…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that if you go looking you’ll find that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlig…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”— Michelle Obama, amazon.com
“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”— Michelle Obama, amazon.com
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a ‘public house’ or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were ‘of good life & Conversation and fit to keep such a house.”— Edwin G. Burrows, amazon.com
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“It’s the reaction of most of White America. I’m used to having half the audience come to see me get beat, regardless of who my opponent is. I’ve denied them this day for a long time, and now that it’s here, they’re making the most of it.”— Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham, amazon.com
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“The first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“History is the track in the snow left by creativity wandering in the Divine Imagination.”— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, amazon.com
“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly ful…”— Kim Kiyun, rosalarian.tumblr.com
“A time capsule is bottled optimism. It makes material the belief that human beings will survive long enough to retrieve and decode artifacts of the distant past. In 1938, during the planning stages of the Crypt of Civilization, Jacobs dedicated the vault’s massive steel door. His remarks exhibited a…”— Glenn Fleishman, theatlantic.com