If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany. — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact. — Megyn Kelly 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
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It seems like journalism over here in UK, in general, is at a higher level: not overrun by all these teeny little… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Fashion museums think the more you know about the significance of clothes culturally, the more interesting they are. We certainly don't neglect… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image