I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the… — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political… — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
“Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised,… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic 'ideals' of America-Jewry, Europe pits its metaphysical ideas, its faith in… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Eve.” He placed himself in front of her again. “We can’t have any more than today, but we can have today.” “What… — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of… — Robert W. Funk Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices… It defiles… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't… — Michael N. Castle 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
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in… — William Torrey Harris Copy Share Image
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see,… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important',… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
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