Historical Quotes · Page 19

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

— Janet Reno

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

— Erwin Rommel

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.” “Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.”

— Sherri Browning

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

— Ludwig von Mises

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it…

— Margaret Mead

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

— Andrew Luck

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from…

— David Oyelowo

Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear,…

— Tom Hooper

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us.…

— Clara Fraser

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall…

— George Santayana

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to…

— Woody Allen

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever…

— James Daly

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own…

— Jon Meacham

I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea…

— Meera Menon

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and…

— H. G. Wells

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was…

— Zadie Smith

There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can…

— Henry Giroux

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to…

— C. S. Lewis

Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of…

— Laura Mullen

“The soap opera was followed by a game show: money for nothing was coming back into fashion.”

— Zin Murphy

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience…

— Renata Adler

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

— David Mitchell

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

— Robert Fulghum

“Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?”

— Padgett Powell

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

— Orlando Bloom

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

— Kate Braverman

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

— Robert Paul Weston

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

— Anonymous

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

— Paul Ricoeur

“A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice”

— Sharon Lovejoy

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

— Larry McMurtry

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

— Mark Twain

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

— Nicola Cornick

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary