Historical Quotes · Page 63

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

— Robert Higgs

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the…

— Sean Wilentz

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and…

— William J. Mitchell

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical…

— Robert M. Price

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then…

— Loretta Napoleoni

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe…

— Michael Tobias

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to…

— Brian Eno

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

— Louis Bachelier

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for…

— Amor Towles

Nothing's new since Genesis. And so everybody in their life thinks history began when they were born. Most people's historical perspective happened…

— Rush Limbaugh

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before…

— Clement Greenberg

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

— Gertrude Stein

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently…

— Mark Earley

“Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh." ~ Gustaf…

— Renee Vincent

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

— Thomas A. Bailey

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed…

— Henry Giroux

Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis…

— Madeline Hunter

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Am I Dead?" Had she fallen to her doom and this was all an elaborate fantasy? Was this the place between life…

— M. Keep

I know what a bozo I really am. And it's healthier for me to look at myself as a regular human being…

— David Crosby

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary…

— David Friedrich Strauss

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that…

— Friedrich Engels

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton