Ya Historical Quotes
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
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.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.
As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
I've 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.
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.