Historical Quotes

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

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.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

The midwife of history is violence.

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

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.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.