I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty,… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“When King John was angry, he threw himself down and rolled the floor, yelling and chewing the expensive oriental rugs that Crusaders… — James Daugherty Copy Share Image
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion. “The… — Patricia Grasso Copy Share Image
If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
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Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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