Historically Quotes

299 quotes by 276 authors

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer. — Dick Francis
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood… — Teresa de Lauretis
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors. — Linda McQuaig
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying… — Gary Steiner
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of… — Michael Milken
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. — Huston Smith
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the countryâ€™s dissidents and marginalized who bear… — Glenn Greenwald
The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments.… — Emma Goldman
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all I recognise the… — Theodor Herzl
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites… — Bill Gates
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later… — John Trudell
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculatorsÂ historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to… — Jim Cramer
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in… — Henry A. Kissinger
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals… — Calvin Coolidge
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain

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