'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. Christopher Hitchens on history
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert on history
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Noam Chomsky on history
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. Elie Wiesel on history
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. Tom Waits on history
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. Michelle Obama on history
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. Newt Gingrich on history
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno on history
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. Sidney Poitier on history
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. Norman Borlaug on history
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Joseph Conrad on history
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. Newt Gingrich on history
I think the materialist conception of history is valid. Christopher Hitchens on history
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. Paul Ryan on history
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. Jerry Saltz on history
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language. Jerry Saltz on history
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. Jerry Saltz on history
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.' Jerry Saltz on history
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. Joan Rivers on history
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Salman Rushdie on history