“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
German dominance in the EU is a fact of life. But for historical reasons, it would be the last country to be… — Anthony Glees Copy Share Image
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see,… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in… — William Torrey Harris Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important',… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All the while Martin attempted to catch his aunt with a remorseful gaze, but the young woman was reabsorbed into her mother’s… — Carola Perla Copy Share Image
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
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