Pastoral Resources

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.