710 Quotes About Historical

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

We're playing Mozart's 35th symphony because of the historical significance. It was the first piece the orchestra played when it started in 1982.

Without stones there is no arch

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

This much is true: you have been lied to.