We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. less than 1 minute read
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually. less than 1 minute read
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. less than 1 minute read
I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. less than 1 minute read
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. less than 1 minute read
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too. less than 1 minute read
WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.;Christopher Hitchens;history 34242;Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.;Gustave Flaubert;history 34243;The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.;Noam Chomsky;history 34244;Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.;Elie Wiesel;history 34245;Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.;Tom Waits;history 34246;There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.;Michelle Obama;history 34247;President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.;Newt Gingrich;history 34248;History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.;Theodor Adorno;history 34249;So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.;Sidney Poitier;history 34250;Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.;Norman Borlaug;history 34251;History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.;Joseph Conrad;history 34252;In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.;Newt Gingrich;history 34253;I think the materialist conception of history is valid.;Christopher Hitchens;history 34254;Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.;Paul Ryan;history 34255;Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.;Jerry Saltz;history 34256;Imagine it’s 1981. You’re an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You’re also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn’t that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.;Jerry Saltz;history 34257;Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.;Jerry Saltz;history 34258;I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress. 2 minute read
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. less than 1 minute read
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. less than 1 minute read
