Drama Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is…

— James D'arcy

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

— Antony Beevor

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the…

— Orson Scott Card

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

“people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents are, to…

— Mark Hitchcock

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

— Cate Blanchett

The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the…

— Walter Millis

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche