710 Quotes About Historical
- Author Simone de Beauvoir
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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- Author Steven Biko
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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- Author Walter Benjamin
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness
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- Author Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
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- Author Alan Coren
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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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- Author Carlos Castaneda
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It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
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- Author Eleanor Catton
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Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
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- Author Fidel Castro
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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- Author George Crumb
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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
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