Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, Historical Quotes

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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You accept the historical Jesus?

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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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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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

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I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately.

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Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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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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Our aim is a democratic peace.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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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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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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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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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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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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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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