Quotes About Historical

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

Equality of outcome is a discredited concept, failing on both logical and historical grounds, as anyone knows who has studied the misery of the 20th century.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

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.

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

In 'The King's Speech ' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider—in a county with only 391 voters.

The Sídh's historical myth is the source of the bastardized concept of a fairy—as if anyone gives a rat's ass.

Patrick O'Brian

I have seized upon documents, poems, letters; in short, j'ai pris mon bien là où je l'ai trouvé, and within a context of general historical accuracy I have changed names, places and minor events to suit my tale.

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian

The historical St. George, an archbishop of Alexandria and a follower of Arius, possesses no features whatever of the heroic dragon-slayer of the legend.

Should the frenzied quest for access to power and wealth be regarded as serving a social good simply because those who were historically underrepresented in the past are now filling roles that involve replicating inequality?

Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it can return to its true historical path—fascism.

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.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Las coyunturas críticas en sí son puntos de inflexión históricos. Y los círculos viciosos y virtuosos implican que tenemos que estudiar la historia

In 1800 probably only 2 to 3 percent of the citizens of the Ottoman Empire were literate, compared with 60 percent of adult males and 40 percent of adult females in England. In the Netherlands and Germany, literacy rates were even higher. The Ottoman lands lagged far behind the European countries with the lowest educational attainment in this period, such as Portugal, where probably only around 20 percent of adults could read and write. Given

Five hundred years ago, Mexico, home to the Aztec state, was certainly richer than the polities to the north, and the United States did not pull ahead of Mexico until the nineteenth century. South and North Korea were economically, as well as socially and culturally, indistinguishable before the country was divided at the 38th parallel after the Second World War. Similarly, most of the huge economic differences we observe around us today emerged over the last two hundred years.