Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel,… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
