Falsehood Quote by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Download Open image “There has never been nationhood without falsehood.” — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Falsehood Myth Nationalism
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut,… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Unless US citizens acknowledge and understand their country's imperial past, they will not be able to understand its present or future. Much of the… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“to become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He’s last voyage, probably as a result of” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Capitalism seems to have failed and is now stigmatized as greed. A reaction against individual excess is driving the world back to collective values.… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Only three routes of upward mobility were available to socially ambitious upstarts such as Columbus: war, the Church, and the sea. Columbus probably contemplated… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States—almost as improbably as Solomon was of… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image