The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. – John Morley, Notes on Politics and History Category: History
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. – Robert Anton Wilson Category: History
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. – Elias Canetti, The Human Province Category: History
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. – Madalyn Murray OHair Category: History
When an individual is protesting societys refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. – Bayard Rustin Category: Society
Its been my policy to view the Internet not as an information highway, but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. – Mike Royko Category: Computers
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. – John Carey Category: Face, Faces