Historical Quotes

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath i...

It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but w...

It's a very good historical book about history.

Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till the...

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic 'ideals' of America-...

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God a...

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted dow...

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and...

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where...

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge f...

If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design...

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remi...

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it...

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who pr...

Percy, you are dismissed from my service.""Me? Why, my lord?""Why? Because, Percy, far from being a ...

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

People perish. Books are immortal.

You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided out...

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas to...

Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humm...

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presenc...

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through t...

There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Hors...

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover man...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or no...