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History Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all…
- The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still…
- In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
- Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,…
- I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
- 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who…
- The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.…
- The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
More History Quotes
- 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