Historical Quotes - Page 32

• From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

  Mario Bunge

  Political, Tools, Viewpoints

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Passion, People, Feelings

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• Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Character, Events

  Source: www.bernardcornwell.net

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• When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Looks, Periods

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Fall, Quality, Different

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• Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.

  Marvin Kalb

  Ukraine, Giving, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  William Henry Drummond

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

  John Adams

  Grief, Faith Religion, Abuse

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Promise

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

  Jon Porter

  Anniversary, Years, Understanding

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• Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

  Voltaire

  Zero, Paper, Return

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• The only winner today is big business.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Today, Winner, Bigs

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• Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Christ

  Walter Kaufmann (2008). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”, p.345, Princeton University Press

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• All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

  Voltaire

  History, Fables, Ancient

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• History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

  Voltaire

  Records, Crime, Tableau

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• History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

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• My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

  John Adams

  Mind, Progress, Four

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

  John Adams

  Darkness, Wish, Restoration

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• History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Hands, Woven

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• Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.

  Ian Stewart

  Education, Teaching, School

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• A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Yesterday, Illumination

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

  Kevin Kelly

  Design, Body, Given

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• Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

  Peter Marshall

  Dream, Vision, Needs

  Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press

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• Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Party, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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