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«Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.»
Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Educator)
| About:
Books,
Ideas
| Keywords:
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«Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.»
Author: Butterfly McQueen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
blossom, Gone with, Gone With the, Gone With the Wind, history of ideas, How Hard It Is, with the wind
«Ideas shape the course of history.»
«The history of mankind is the history of ideas.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
History,
Ideas,
Mankind
| Keywords:
history of ideas
«Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea»
Author: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(Activist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
history of ideas, Human history
«Human history in essence is the history of ideas.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
history of ideas, Human history, in essence, The History of
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; / nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
arise, consist, grounded, history of ideas, symbols
«Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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