If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty,… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible,… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image