#History

"History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One"

"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."

"History develops, art stands still."

"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."

"I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die."

"Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war."

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."

"It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans."

"Men die in battle; women die in childbirth."

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice."

"I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor."

"As individuals express their life, so they are."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."