#history

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disarmament #does #fifty #follow #follows

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

Happy is the nation without a history. ↗

— Cesare Beccaria

#history #nation #without

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#american history #declaration #history #independence #part

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. ↗

— Boris Becker

#future #history #i #i can #only

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#legend #remains #spite #victorious

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. ↗

— Edward Bond

#history #living #people #scars #still