Historical Quotes · Page 64

“Jill, a comprehensive school teacher in her early thirties, has put her dark past behind her to become a lady in control…

— Jan Hunter

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more…

— Terence McKenna

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

— Sidney Hook

“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will…

— Jina Bacarr

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable…

— Gavin de Beer

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

— Sheryl Sandberg

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

— Umberto Eco

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

— Samantha Power

The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is…

— Mick Mulvaney

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to…

— Glenn Reynolds

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not…

— Mo Rocca

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people…

— Peter Singer

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

— Asghar Ali Engineer

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

— Angela Merkel

I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is…

— Tony Blair