Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Look. Isn't he beautiful?" Drew's expression softened. "Ah, Nellie. He's bald, pink, and has no teeth. What's so beautiful about that?" Nellie's… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at… — John Egerton Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“He turns toward the voice. It is as though the darkness itself has spoken. But when he looks closer he can make… — Lucy Foley Copy Share Image
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the… — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
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