Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age… — Samuel Johnson 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
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham 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
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every… — Jose Emilio Pacheco Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or… — John Milton 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
The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes. — Cynthia Addai-Robinson Copy Share Image
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. — Ron Paul 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
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
