Top Historical Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Prescott Bush
Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.
- Prescott Bush
Collection: Historical
Image of Leslie Fiedler
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.
- Leslie Fiedler
Collection: Historical
Image of Francis Walsingham
There is nothing more dangerous than security.
- Francis Walsingham
Collection: Historical
Image of Magnus Stenbock
Idleness only leads to bad deeds
- Magnus Stenbock
Collection: Historical
Image of Rudolf Otto
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.
- Rudolf Otto
Collection: Historical
Image of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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.
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Collection: Historical
Image of Will Eisner
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
- Will Eisner
Collection: Historical
Image of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Collection: Historical
Image of Moses Finley
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
- Moses Finley
Collection: Historical
Image of Horace Greeley
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.
- Horace Greeley
Collection: Historical
Image of Tana French
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.
- Tana French
Collection: Historical
Image of Asghar Ali Engineer
I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.
- Asghar Ali Engineer
Collection: Historical
Image of Louis Mackey
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.
- Louis Mackey
Collection: Historical
Image of Andrew Tudor
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
- Andrew Tudor
Collection: Historical
Image of Kedar Joshi
Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.
- Kedar Joshi
Collection: Historical
Image of Luc Sante
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.
- Luc Sante
Collection: Historical
Image of Melissa Farley
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
- Melissa Farley
Collection: Historical
Image of Witold Walczak
The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.
- Witold Walczak
Collection: Historical
Image of Andre Vltchek
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
- Andre Vltchek
Collection: Historical
Image of Helen Cam
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
Collection: Historical
Image of Stonewall Jackson
The only winner today is big business.
- Stonewall Jackson
Collection: Historical
Image of Jeremy Siegel
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
- Jeremy Siegel
Collection: Historical
Image of Raymond Geuss
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.
- Raymond Geuss
Collection: Historical
Image of Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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.
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Collection: Historical
Image of Walter Kaufmann
Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.
- Walter Kaufmann
Collection: Historical
Image of Joyce Lee Malcolm
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.
- Joyce Lee Malcolm
Collection: Historical
Image of Tim Crane
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.
- Tim Crane
Collection: Historical
Image of Otto E. Neugebauer
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.
- Otto E. Neugebauer
Collection: Historical
Image of Eric Holmes
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.
- Eric Holmes
Collection: Historical
Image of Laura Owens
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.
- Laura Owens
Collection: Historical
Image of Carl R Trueman
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?
- Carl R Trueman
Collection: Historical
Image of Hershel Shanks
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.
- Hershel Shanks
Collection: Historical
Image of Andrea Davis Pinkney
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
- Andrea Davis Pinkney
Collection: Historical
Image of Frank Moore Cross
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.
- Frank Moore Cross
Collection: Historical
Image of Robert Paul Weston
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
- Robert Paul Weston
Collection: Historical
Image of Blackie Sherrod
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
- Blackie Sherrod
Collection: Historical
Image of Heinrich August Winkler
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.
- Heinrich August Winkler
Collection: Historical
Image of Bill Watterson
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Historical
Image of Camille Paglia
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.
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Historical
Image of Clay Shirky
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.
- Clay Shirky
Collection: Historical
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
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.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Historical
Image of Voltaire
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
- Voltaire
Collection: Historical
Image of Cass Sunstein
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.
- Cass Sunstein
Collection: Historical
Image of Arnold J. Toynbee
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.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Collection: Historical
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Historical
Image of Hal Borland
He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
- Hal Borland
Collection: Historical
Image of Ronald Reagan
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Historical
Image of Elie Wiesel
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.
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: Historical
Image of Jean Baudrillard
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
- Jean Baudrillard
Collection: Historical