Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“It had been just about one hundred years now, since any of the smugglers had gone over the notch. History caught up… — Stephen Deck Copy Share Image
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else,… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical,… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
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