Historical Quotes - Page 4

• By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.

  Pope John Paul II

  Nwo, Issues, World Government

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• 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.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Holiday, Years

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.

  Robert M. Price

  Cheerleading, Emotional, Wind

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• The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

  Philip Schaff

  Writing, Three, Kind

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.462, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

  Rob Bell

  Book, Reality, Study

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• If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Squares, Law, Doe

  Immanuel Velikovsky (1966). “Worlds in Collision”, p.19, Paradigma Ltd

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• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Strong, Team, Nwo

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• I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

  Wilhelm Canaris

  Country, Criminals, Duty

  "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.

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• So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Virtue, Interpretation

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

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• The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

  Clement Attlee

  Glasses, House, Lord

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• Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

  Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

  Want, Finnish

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• Idleness only leads to bad deeds

  Magnus Stenbock

  Deeds, Idleness

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• Education is a nation's cheapest defence

  Edmund Burke

  Defence, Nations

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• If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

  Wilfred Owen

  Soldier, Unthinkable, Ifs

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• History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Lists, Facts

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• Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

  Mao Zedong

  History, Enemy, Despise

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• Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Country, Soldier, Guarding

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• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

  Eamon de Valera

  War, Night, Thieves

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• The human heart will never wrinkle

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Heart, Wrinkles, Humans

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• When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

  Vilhelm Moberg

  Mean, Doe, Rowing

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• The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

  Erwin Rommel

  Long, Battle, Shooting

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• There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Rich, Software

  Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing, 1980.

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• I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

  Douglas Bader

  Data, Odd, Keywords

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• More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

  Ordway Tead

  Common Sense, Survival, Analysis

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.

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