For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.” — Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen Copy Share Image
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
“Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he… — Ella March Chase Copy Share Image
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude… — Paul L. Maier Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy... — John McCain Copy Share Image
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage. — Sonu Sood Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect historical film. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image