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Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.Collection: Historical
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.Collection: Historical
There is nothing more dangerous than security.Collection: Historical
Idleness only leads to bad deedsCollection: Historical
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.Collection: Historical
I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.Collection: Historical
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.Collection: Historical
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.Collection: Historical
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.Collection: Historical
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.Collection: Historical
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.Collection: Historical
I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.Collection: Historical
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.Collection: Historical
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.Collection: Historical
Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.Collection: Historical
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.Collection: Historical
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.Collection: Historical
The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.Collection: Historical
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.Collection: Historical
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.Collection: Historical
The only winner today is big business.Collection: Historical
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.Collection: Historical
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.Collection: Historical
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.Collection: Historical
Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.Collection: Historical
The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.Collection: Historical
Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.Collection: Historical
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.Collection: Historical
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.Collection: Historical
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.Collection: Historical
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?Collection: Historical
Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.Collection: Historical
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.Collection: Historical
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.Collection: Historical
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.Collection: Historical
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.Collection: Historical
In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old, historical bonds is a reasonable, well-founded approach.Collection: Historical
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ CalvinCollection: Historical
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.Collection: Historical
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.Collection: Historical
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.Collection: Historical
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheursCollection: Historical
Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.Collection: Historical
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.Collection: Historical
The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.Collection: Historical
He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.Collection: Historical
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.Collection: Historical
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.Collection: Historical
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.Collection: Historical