Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.” — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, it wasn't every day that… — Olivia Parker Copy Share Image
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas -… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
We are in an extremely dangerous situation. It was ignorant and ahistorical for Donald Trump to say that the EU will dissolve.… — Anthony Glees Copy Share Image
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real… — H. L. Richardson Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson Copy Share Image
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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