“At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.” PeopleStarsWaitingCenturyBattleSixHistoricalAidsConquerExpectingKosovo Author:Slobodan Milosević
“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.” YearsArtStillsImportantMatterStrongCenturyRiversIntelligentHistoricalBrilliant20th CenturyAbstractionAmusingModernismMinimalismCreeksFigurative Art Author:Mark Kostabi
“Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.” StoriesImaginationRichCenturyProveEmpathyHistoricalDetailsCompanionBiblicalMarvelousRelatableScholarshipCompoundsAudacious Author:Michelle Huneven
“It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.” IfsFirstsJesusIndividualChristAtheismCenturyFiguresHistoricalPositive AtheismUnclesConstructsTheologianSymbolicTheologicalSyntheticNazarethUncle Sam Author:Robert M. Price
“I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.” TryingFactsCenturyRight NowEnglandHistoricalLibraryBostonNew EnglandLineageTracing Author:Rick Moody
“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.” WayTwoEndsEconomicCenturyEvolutionPoliticianCapitalismResourcesUltimateHistoricalDemocraticCriticsRewardsBest WayContradictionScholarCollapsePhasesSupporterHintsUnstableProminentEconomic Systems Author:Raghuram Rajan
“I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingWellsPersonsDoneHappensEyeTogetherRomanceNovelCuttingCenturyHistoricalWorking ItOur WorldRomance NovelPhotoshop Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.” PeopleMenHumansMayIdeasSpiritualFormBeliefAbilityCenturyPrideWorshipConcernHistoricalHumanismSuperiorsRejectsSecularTwentieth CenturyVaryGlorifyBelief In GodSecular Humanism Author:David Fisher
“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.” HumansHas BeensTwoFactsRunningClassCenturyEventsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalChinaRussiaCommunistEstablishmentWorking ClassHuman HistoryTwentieth CenturyHistorical Events Author:Grover Furr
“Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.” HumansMeanTogetherPoliticalLanguageProcessUnderstandingCenturyTransformationHistoricalNuclearAccomplishedWarfareAssaultMomentum19th CenturyHaltGermsProliferationInfantileHuman LanguageNuclear Proliferation Author:Terence McKenna
“The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.” CenturyCivilizationHistoricalBoundaries20th CenturyDissolving Author:Terence McKenna
“It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.” WorldYearsMovingHateCenturyFineHistoricalHatedMaps20th Century19th CenturyHungarians Author:Eddie Izzard
“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.” ThinkingWayYearsTwoStoriesMightAmericaYoungSocialPoorNovelGrowing UpGrowingCenturyTypeHistoricalLike MeNeighborhoodYoung Women20th CenturyUpbringingNaplesPoor Neighborhoods Author:Ann Goldstein
“My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus was initially Russian fashion, but now I have extended it to the whole European continent.” WholeTodayFocusPiecesCenturyFashionDressesHistoricalCollectionsContinentsAccessories18th Century Author:Alexander Vassiliev
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” PeoplePoliticalPoliticsIssuesCenturyHistoricalSooner Or LaterVersusBankingUsuryBankers And BanksBanks And Money Author:Lord Acton