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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He… — E. M. Forster
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and… — Eric Hobsbawm
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. — Tony Judt
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're… — Michio Kaku
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… — Dean Kamen
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social… — Aly Khan
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous… — Tony Kushner
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made… — Marshall McLuhan
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey… — Camille Paglia
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and… — David Rockefeller
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the… — Will Self
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and… — Steven Spielberg
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy
Study men, not historians. — Harry S. Truman
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back… — Steven Van Zandt
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians… — Simone Weil
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of… — Kurt Vonnegut
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm
Heart and head are contrary historians. — Jerry Spinelli
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig

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