How do you make any sense of history art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

World history is tragic.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially with a leftist slant to work out how we got here.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play collaborate and compete share knowledge and share work than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she or he is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I think that both men Bush and Blair will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from history from hullabaloo from terrible unquiet fuss.

This empire unlike any other in the history of the world has been built primarily through economic manipulation through cheating through fraud through seducing people into our way of life through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.