Historical Political Quotes:

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

- Daniel Barenboim

topic: Philosophical, Racism, Political, Anti Semitism, Historical Political

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows.

- Douglas Portway

topic: Political, Historical, Intellectual, Historical Political

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

- Aminatta Forna

topic: Political, Historical, Firsts, Jung, Historical Political

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Unique, Data, Forever, Wanton, Psychological Research

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, America, Political, Historical Political

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

- Tony Kushner

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Political, Historical, Needs, Political Discourse, Historical Political