Government Quote by David Mamet

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

— Anita Roddick

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

— Anonymous

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is…

— Brian Fallon

I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any…

— Ray Guy

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and…

— Robert Hass

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

— A. S. Byatt

Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing…

— Epifanio de los Santos

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

— Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too…

— Robert Hass

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt