Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and… — Jakob Bohme 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
I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most… — Samuel Eliot Morison 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
“I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow. — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.” — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
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