Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Frederic Morton

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...

Franz Boas

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Jeanette Winterson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Chris Hedges

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

George W. Bush

Our aim is a democratic peace.

George W. Bush

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

George W. Bush

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

George W. Bush

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

George R. R. Martin

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Gale Anne Hurd

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan,

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Julian Barnes

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

I'm not in a position to make a historical comparison,

Julia Quinn

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

Michael Hirst

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Jeremy Siegel

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

George Henry Lewes

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

George H. W. Bush

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

Karl Marx

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.