Ya Historical Quotes
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.
Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich.
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.
That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.