Quotes with history

Quotes 441 till 460 of 604.

  • Mao Tse-Tung The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Campbell The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
    Thomas Campbell
    Scottish poet (1777 - 1844)
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  • Albert J. Nock The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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  • Nelson Mandela The purpose of studying history is not to deride human action, nor to weep over it or to hate it, but to understand it. And hopefully then to learn from it as we contemplate our future.
    Renewal and Renaissance - Towards A New World Order (1997)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Eric Hoffer The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • C. Wright Mills The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Philip Roth The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
    The Plot Against America (2004)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The whole history of Christianity proves that she has indeed little to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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