To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged… — Horace Rowan Gaither Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson 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
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling. — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn't want to depend on Web sources for… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.” — Anne Lovett Copy Share Image
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history? — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.” — Helen Picca Copy Share Image
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
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