Historical Quotes · Page 22

“Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.”

— Amit Kalantri

As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is…

— Richard A. Falk

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

— John Marshall

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an…

— Julia Bacha

“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.”

— Anonymous

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

— Aminatta Forna

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history…

— Rita Dove

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can…

— John Stott

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about…

— Kathryn Lasky

Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it…

— Don DeLillo

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the…

— Sharon Kay Penman

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less…

— Leslie Fiedler

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery.…

— Will Shortz

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal…

— Earnest Hooton

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to…

— Kirk Cameron

“Her Majesty to the theatre. The performance took place on a stage erected in the courtyard, and Her Majesty closed in one…

— Princess Der Ling

“Stars flicker above, points of bright ice in a dark river. I pull a heavy sheepskin around my legs and stretch my…

— Ned Hayes

Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay…

— M. King Hubbert

This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and…

— Ahmad Sa'adat

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…

— David Bentley Hart

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than…

— Walter Scott

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

— Lauren Groff

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

— Gerald Massey

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure.

— Angus Macfadyen

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond…

— Henri Matisse

“Kiss under the kissing bough and a lady is guaranteed to be wed before the following Christmastide.”

— Christina McKnight

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

— Mary Doria Russell

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

— Fareed Zakaria

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on…

— Marcia Gay Harden

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

— Ai Weiwei

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

— Andre Vltchek

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

— Ned Beauman

“Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards