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History Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved,…
- When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.…
- I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
- Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock…
- Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.
- Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.
- To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on…
- The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons,…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough