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The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.Collection: Historical
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.Collection: Historical
The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.Collection: Historical
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.Collection: Historical
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.Collection: Historical
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.Collection: Historical
This much is true: you have been lied to.Collection: Historical
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.Collection: Historical
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.Collection: Historical
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.Collection: Historical
After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one. ~CatCollection: Historical
The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.Collection: Historical
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.Collection: Historical
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.Collection: Historical
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.Collection: Historical
I just love historical fiction.Collection: Historical
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.Collection: Historical
At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.Collection: Historical
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.Collection: Historical
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.Collection: Historical
There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.Collection: Historical
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.Collection: Historical
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.Collection: Historical
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.Collection: Historical
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.Collection: Historical
Our aim is a democratic peace.Collection: Historical
It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration that have left the US government remarkably isolated, feared and often hated to an extent with no historical precedent.Collection: Historical
Education is a nation's cheapest defenceCollection: Historical
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.Collection: Historical
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of acquiring still more capital. But, before a certain moment in historical time, it had never been easy for such individuals to do this successfully.Collection: Historical
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.Collection: Historical
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.Collection: Historical
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.Collection: Historical
Historical tends to be my bailiwick.Collection: Historical
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.Collection: Historical
Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.Collection: Historical
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.Collection: Historical
The dignity of history.Collection: Historical
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.Collection: Historical
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy.Collection: Historical
As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.Collection: Historical
Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.Collection: Historical
1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.Collection: Historical
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.Collection: Historical
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Collection: Historical
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.Collection: Historical
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidentsCollection: Historical
We will never make a 32-bit operating system.Collection: Historical
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.Collection: Historical