#history

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#course #history #iron #men #necessary

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ↗

— George Orwell

#fading #history #into #lies #objective

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! ↗

— Camille Paglia

#culture #history #objects #once #phases

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american policy #cannot #competing #different

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #behavior #clan #contributed #godfather