#history

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

#does #fool #great #great deal #history

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#accomplished #biography #comes #forebears #history

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#bad guys #cinema #even #great #guys

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#trees

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#american history #called #darwinism #embraced #exist