Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible… — Sefton Delmer Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If… — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“I may not have journeyed to other lands, but a trip through the fairy glade is a journey few others have taken,… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it… — Isa Blagden Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts… — Lila Abu-Lughod Copy Share Image
“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion. “The… — Patricia Grasso Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think… — Aarti Sequeira Copy Share Image
