Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

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.

Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

Jean Nouvel

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

Francis Walsingham

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Horace Greeley

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Herbert Marcuse

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Herbert Marcuse

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

John Deane

But he said now seemed to be the time -- that he wanted to get it on the historical record,

Jay Bilas

I have to keep reminding myself there are a lot of teams out there that might not feel like NCAA Tournament teams because you're taking a historical perspective. When you sit down and do the math and start to look at the remaining teams, there really aren't that many teams vying for spots.

It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Jonathan Lethem

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Paul Volcker

A global economy requires a global currency.

Mary Pope Osborne

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

Martin Buber

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Martin Buber

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Lion Feuchtwanger

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Lee Strobel

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Hamish Bowles

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Lance Reddick

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Karl Jaspers

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Julius Wellhausen

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Martha Grimes

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

Paul Auster

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Mike Huckabee

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East....

Niall Ferguson

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Noam Chomsky

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.