Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots,… — Doug McAdam Copy Share Image
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Darius squared his shoulders, wishing he had something other than his handkerchief to keep his hands occupied while she stood this close,… — Jayne Fresina Copy Share Image
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Copy Share Image
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole… — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible,… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image