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History Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare…
- When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales…
- The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
- There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having…
- Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest…
- The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
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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