The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are… — Nelson W. Aldrich Copy Share Image
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile.… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Her name is Arabelle.” Marius felt her name sink into his chest like a long-ago lullaby waiting to be sung again.” — Juliette Cross 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
Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai Copy Share Image
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism — Nancy Hartsock Copy Share Image
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am Calumny Spinks. Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose. It has swung there in the faintest… — Piers Alexander Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image