#tory

We live in the least ugly time in history. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#least #live #time #ugly

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#among #back #bound #course #eve

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#muslims #obligatory

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 best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

#capture #close #come #completeness #describing

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disarmament #does #fifty #follow #follows

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read