People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

But there is no value to suffering!

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I'm a fake intellectual.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?