#history

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american history #any #capitalism #cold #cold war

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#better #born #born to be #changed #contribution

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#already #change #doubt #never #you

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#her #history #little #make #makes

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#feeling #gets #gift #give #good