Historical Quotes · Page 23

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

— Arthur Erickson

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

— Maynard James Keenan

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

— Henry Ford

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

— Robert Higgs

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the…

— Michael Scott

“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”

— Jefferson Davis

“What makes you think you can stop me?” “I’m a lady, and you’re a gentleman.” He smirked. “Are you sure about that?”…

— Jayne Fresina

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that…

— Dave Brubeck

“There is an abiding fear Bonaparte will invade England by way of a tunnel beneath the Channel. How ingenious! Why, had such…

— Emma Richler

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history,…

— Daniel Aaron

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as…

— Nicholas Sparks

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves…

— Vincent Piazza

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human…

— Edward Gibbon

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.…

— Susan Sontag

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for…

— Amor Towles

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the…

— Terence McKenna

“Where are you going?" "To get my Bible." "Right now? You can't get your Bible out right now! I'm, I'm, we're just…

— Deeanne Gist

In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take…

— Mao Zedong

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power…

— Andre Malraux

NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I…

— Michael Rother

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

— George Orwell

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

— Vladimir Voinovich

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

— Kate Mosse

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

— John C. Bogle

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

— Sandra Gulland

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler

— Wilhelm Canaris

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to…

— Terry Pratchett

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just…

— Sarah Dessen

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply…

— Hugh Hefner

“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

— Steven Weinberg

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

— Thurgood Marshall

“Mannequins are both a reflection of our social norms and and a beacon for our ideals.”

— Brandy Isadora