Elliot Ackerman Quotes

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.

Elliot Ackerman

Quotes to Explore

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Yvette Clarke
- American
- History
- Black
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- People
- Present
- Identity
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

Pat Buchanan
- World
- War
- History
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

M. H. Abrams
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx
- Great
- History
- Progress
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

Ian Hacking
- Long
- History
- Feeling