#the history of

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#goes #happened #history #ira #over

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#berlin #europe #future #history #human

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

#class #history #previous #societies #struggles

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ↗

— Paul Merton

#books #comedy #generations #history #humour

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#culture #extended #formed #great #history

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#insane #insane people #mainly #people #saints

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#civilization #history #our #the history of #war

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#add #could #defeated #history #i

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny