Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum. — J. William Schopf Copy Share Image
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“The soap opera was followed by a game show: money for nothing was coming back into fashion.” — Zin Murphy Copy Share Image
In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
