- Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
- Angela Carter on History
- Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair on History
- Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
- Christopher Hitchens on History
- 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 on History
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Bertrand Russell on History
- 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 on History
- Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
- David M. Shoup on History
- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
- Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
- Norman Mailer on History
- Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
- Jackson Browne on History
- Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
- John Podhoretz on History
- Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
- George Eliot on History
- Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
- Conrad Black on History
- Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
- Anwar Sadat on History
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