My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If… — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must… — Deng Xiaoping 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
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
