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Historical Quotes
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. - Ernest Mandel Quotes
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesnt feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts. - Chester Brown Quotes
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. - Georg Simmel Quotes
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We dont really know if he existed as a historical figure. - Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as Im concerned. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. - Hervey Allen Quotes
As we enter a new century, Britain and Germany are at last coming to terms with World War II, but now have to deal with a new historical hangover. - Douglas Hurd Quotes
Research can be a big clunker. Its difficult to know how you can make the historical light. - Michael Ondaatje Quotes
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. - Larry Mcmurtry Quotes
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. - John Shimkus Quotes
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. - David Trimble Quotes
Many of Americas historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didnt have many other options. - Jeremy Jackson Quotes
Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps. - Monica Lewinsky Quotes
Ive been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. - Mary Mccarthy Quotes
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. - Ferdinand De Saussure Quotes
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. - Robert Towne Quotes
Most peoples historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. - Rush Limbaugh Quotes
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. - Thomas Friedman Quotes
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. - Edmund Husserl Quotes
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. - Hu Shih Quotes
I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period. - Rick Wakeman Quotes
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. - Angela Davis Quotes
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. - Walter Scott Quotes
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. - James Madison Quotes
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific. - Joseph Needham Quotes
Most people dont like to talk about violent historical death. - Sarah Vowell Quotes
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