#history

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#blast #bourgeoisie #history #leaves #might

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#being #china #christian #far #fears

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#does #entrust #freedom #history #long

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hoax #islam #lies #muhammad #religion

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. ↗

— James Ellroy

#basic #going #history #i #kid

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#home #identity #jewish #nationality #religion

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#cartoonist #going #history #i #say

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. ↗

— John Barth

#bills #history #made #more #secret