I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy... — John McCain Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect historical film. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. — Tom Hulce Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott” — R.R. Smythe Copy Share Image
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I… — Zainab Salbi 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
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise… — Clarence Francis Copy Share Image
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin 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
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
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