#history

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#apes #history #hominids #human #love

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. ↗

— Mary Renault

#inspiration #inspirational

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#inspiration #inspirational

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537. ↗

— Adam Nicolson

#history #marriage #sacrament #marriage

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#history #ya #beauty

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inspirational #inspirational

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inaugural-address #inspirational #politics #inspirational

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#lessons #men

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#men

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#history #politics #suffragette #women #men