Quotes and Sayings About Historical
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
-- A. E. Housman -
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
-- Abe Ajay -
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker
-- Adolf Hitler -
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
-- Adolf Ivar Arwidsson -
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
-- Ai Weiwei -
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
-- Al Stewart -
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
-- Alan Coren -
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
-- Albert Camus -
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
-- Albert Einstein -
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
-- Aldo Leopold -
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
-- Alfred Kazin -
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
-- Allen Tate -
The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revoÂlution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
-- Aminatta Forna -
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
-- Amira Hass -
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
-- Andrew Jackson -
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
-- Andrew Jackson -
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.
-- Andrew Roberts -
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
-- Andrew Tudor -
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of ***** does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
-- Angela Carter -
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
