#history

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#history #improved #individual #intelligence #little

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #confirms #conscious #constructively #contrary

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

#church #committed #credibility #great #great minds

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. ↗

— James Martineau

#good #great #history #lost #minds

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ↗

— Karl Marx

#activity #ends #history #individual #individual person

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#been #diet #eating #exercised #family

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening. ↗

— Marina Fiorato

#bubonic-plague #historical-romance-fiction #medical-history #venice #architecture

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Clayton Moore

#americana #as far as #back #cattle #coming

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#course #faces #history #portraits #turning