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Jeremy Rifkin on history
Author: Jeremy Rifkin“I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.” -Jeremy Rifkin
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Hugh Laurie on history
Author: Hugh Laurie“I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.” -Hugh Laurie
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David Cronenberg on history
Author: David Cronenberg“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they’re whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they’ve got. I can’t possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.” -David Cronenberg
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J. C. Watts on history
Author: J. C. Watts“Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history’s going to be kind to George W. Bush.” -J. C. Watts
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LL Cool J on history
Author: LL Cool J“I’m not giving up my history and what I’ve done in my music because I love it and I’m very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.” -LL Cool J
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Sidney Poitier on history
Author: Sidney Poitier“History passes the final judgment.” -Sidney Poitier
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Erica Jong on history
Author: Erica Jong“The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.” -Erica Jong
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Eliot Spitzer on history
Author: Eliot Spitzer“A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history.” -Eliot Spitzer
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Sun Myung Moon on history
Author: Sun Myung Moon“Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.” -Sun Myung Moon
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Thomas Francis Meagher on history
Author: Thomas Francis Meagher“Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.” -Thomas Francis Meagher
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John Perkins on history
Author: John Perkins“This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.” -John Perkins
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Twyla Tharp on history
Author: Twyla Tharp“I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.” -Twyla Tharp
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Bill Moyers on history
Author: Bill Moyers“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.” -Bill Moyers
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Russell Baker on history
Author: Russell Baker“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.” -Russell Baker
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Jim DeMint on history
Author: Jim DeMint“We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.” -Jim DeMint
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James Lovelock on history
Author: James Lovelock“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.” -James Lovelock
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Susan Sontag on history
Author: Susan Sontag“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.” -Susan Sontag
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Salma Hayek on history
Author: Salma Hayek“I don’t see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we’ve been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.” -Salma Hayek
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V. S. Naipaul on history
Author: V. S. Naipaul“To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’” -V. S. Naipaul
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Salman Rushdie on history
Author: Salman Rushdie“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.” -Salman Rushdie
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Lord Acton on history
Author: Lord Acton“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making…
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Mao Zedong on history
Author: Mao Zedong“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.” -Mao Zedong
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Henry James on history
Author: Henry James“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.” -Henry James
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Ken Kesey on history
Author: Ken Kesey“Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.” -Ken Kesey
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Kenneth Scott Latourette on history
Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette“The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.” -Kenneth Scott Latourette