Arbiter Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arbiter Controversy Controversy Monarch History History Arbiter Monarch Monarch Surveys Monarchs Surveys
I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story?… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied… — Paul Cartledge Copy Share Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in… — Toshiko Kishida Copy Share Image
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
