“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”
— Aleister Crowley
Author: Aleister Crowley
Category: history
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Category: history
The possibility of a scientific treatment of
“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Category: history
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Religion is the best antidote to the
“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”
— Jonathan Sacks
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Category: history
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This is what I would have done
“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.”
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Category: history
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In terms of the history of a
“In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
Category: history
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Legend: A lie that has attained the
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: history
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Religious belief, like history itself, is a
“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.”
— Jon Meacham
Author: Jon Meacham
Category: history
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We can today open wide the history
“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.”
— Robert Toombs
Author: Robert Toombs
Category: history
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The prolonged slavery of women is the
“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Category: history
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The Establishment center… has led us into
“The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.”
— George McGovern
Author: George McGovern
Category: history
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Mankind has probably done more damage to
“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Author: Jacques Yves Cousteau
Category: history
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