Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character. — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?” — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived. — Billy the Kid Copy Share Image
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself — Peter the Great Copy Share Image
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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