Historical Quotes

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. (Thomas Friedman)
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. View quote
Roger Caras
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. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can. View quote
Edith Hamilton
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. View quote
Walter Scott
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. View quote
David Trimble
Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve. View quote
Xi Jinping
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. View quote
Robert Nozick
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Mary McCarthy)
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. View quote
Arthur Miller
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time. View quote
Rafael Moneo
Bear in mind that the novel-no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective-is always a historical projection of its own time. (Samuel R. Delany)
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. View quote
Ulrich Beck
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. View quote
Virginia Henley
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. View quote
James Henry Breasted
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. View quote
Christopher Lasch