Guise Quote by William Pfaff Download Open image “The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.” — William Pfaff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Guise History Problem Truth Truth is
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age,… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
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