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What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.