Albert Einstein Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Historical Quotes

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , People Quotes , Historical Quotes

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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Language is the archives of history.

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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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

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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Historical Quotes

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes