#history

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

We learned the value of research in World War II. ↗

— Amar Bose

#ii #learned #research #value #war

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#churches #dominated #gays #history #life

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancient #been #disclosed #displayed #east

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#complete #conquest #experience #framework #history

Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. ↗

— Eric Hansen

#history-of-mankind #humor #orchids #death

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal. ↗

— Ken Burns

#deal #history #inside #just #made

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. ↗

— Tim Burton

#different things #exciting #history #new #quite

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#across #down #gender #guy #history

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#history #i #out #point #right