- Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
- Madeleine Albright on History
- Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on History
- Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- 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 on History
- Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
- Walt Whitman on History
- Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
- Maynard James Keenan on History
- Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
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