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Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas. — Richard Weikart
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian… — Richard Heinberg
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style… — Debby Applegate
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every… — James Q. Wilson
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. — Dan Simmons
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the… — Huston Smith
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Unknown Author
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the… — Boyd K. Packer
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his… — Ernst Junger
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s. — Stewart Brand
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of… — F. F. Bruce
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary… — Mircea Eliade
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in… — Tony Benn
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a… — Chris Hedges
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will… — Edward R. Murrow
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these… — Unknown Author
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose… — Arnold J. Toynbee
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the… — Peter Medawar
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare… — Cheikh Anta Diop
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition… — Anthony Braxton

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