Historical Truth Quotes

• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Men, Goal

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• The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  Unknown

  Enemy, German History, Nazism

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• For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  1972 On Africa. In the New York Times,16 Apr.

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• Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Historical, Truth Is, Social

  "Selected Essays by Ahad Ha'am". Book by Ahad Ha'am, 2005.

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• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Order, Support, Historical

  The Times, October 04, 1960.

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• Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.

  Sefton Delmer

  Weed, Historical, Needs

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• Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

  Howard Zinn

  Atheist, Government, Historical

  "From empire to democracy" by Howard Zinn, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2008.

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• These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for painting them is probably of no significance, I am trying to put a name to it here, as an articulation, parallel to the pictures, as it were, of my disquiet and of my opinion.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Names

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• The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

  Henry M. Morris

  Religious, Historical, Religion

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• For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greek, Historical, Sake

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• Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Latin, Historical, Greek

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• With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.

  Debra Dean

  Moving, Historical, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

  Minna Antrim

  Historical, Praise, Expenses

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• When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Loyalty, Mistake, Writing

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• The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Party, Thinking, Government

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