#history

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. ↗

— Julian Cope

#history #make #people #then #who

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

#history #kinds #make #man #ones

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#evolution #first #first time #history #influenza

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#after #discovered #energies #fire #god

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#dangerous #less #more #nuclear #nuclear weapons

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#criticism #good #history #judged #read

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#down the road #extreme #fan #guitar #guitar player

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#greatest #hijacking #history #mankind #may

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #history #human #human blood #jot