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History Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but…
- Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history…
- The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
- Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
- In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
- Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
- The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
- If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to…
- The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A…
- When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
- History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
- The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.
- I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
- All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured…
- My heart broke open and history fell in.
- In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle…
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