Historical Political Quotes

• America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

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  Henry Giroux

  Country   America   Political  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  3820

• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

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  Daniel Barenboim

  Philosophical   Racism   Political  

  3472

• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

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  Aminatta Forna

  Political   Historical   Stories  

  5064

• Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

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  Richard Dawkins

  Unique   Data   Forever  

  2619

• When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

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  Tony Kushner

  Political   Historical   Needs  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4497

• When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows.

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  Douglas Portway

  Political   Historical   Intellectual  

  4620