Pastoral Resources

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

As an actor, you have to have your history.