#history

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#begun #believe #big #big government #deal

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #because #been #easily #good

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#between #change #course #depend #even

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#crisis #giving #great #had #history

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #cheating #economic #empire

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. ↗

— Tom Petty

#fascinated #history #i #i love #love

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#better time #history #honor #i #level

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#get #greats #guess #history #i