T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes, Historical Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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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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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

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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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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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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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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and 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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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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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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You accept the historical Jesus?

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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