“[A] less conventional member of the squirearchy… a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions.”

— Godfrey Higgins

Yas Parish Registers of All Saint's, Owston.
About

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "[A] less conventional member of the squirearchy… a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic his…" by Godfrey Higgins?

Godfrey Higgins photo

Godfrey Higgins 14

British archaeologist 1772–1833

Related quotes

“Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just — radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

2011-02-22
The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Network
Jeremy
Schulman
Glenn Beck Smears 35 Percent Of American Jews
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102220038
2011-02-28
2010s, 2011

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to James Ogilvie (4 August 1811)
1810s

“This enlarged view of the radical cause … allows us to connect leftism and modernism, the radical politics of institutional reform and the radical politics of personal relations, a political vision obsessed with issues of dependence and domination and a moral vision concerned with the inability of the individual to gain practical, emotional, or even cognitive access to other people without forfeiting his independence.”

Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947) Brazilian philosopher and politician

Source: Social Theoryː Its Situation and Its Task (1987), p. 7

“I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.”

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions

Source: Letter to Lady Holland, January 1822

“Of course, there's also politics — "though far less so than before," admitted the three-time MP, who now is a member of the BJP.”

Vyjayanthimala (1936) Indian actress, politician & dancer

Vyjayanthimala still cuts a striking figure tall

“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”

Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist

Quoted in "Years of Minutes"‎ - Page 331 - by Andy Rooney - 2004
2000s, 2004

“I’m vying as an independent candidate in Nairobi City County. I’m not vying as a representative of any ethnic group. I’m going to be the Governor of all patriotic Kenyans. I’m going to be the Governor of all tribes, religions, faiths, races and political persuasions.”

Miguna Miguna (1962) lawyer, author and columnist

Facebook post in response to detractors, https://www.facebook.com/GovernorMigunaMiguna/posts/562185893970795, 2016
2016

“We have to be on our guard when the whig historian tells us… that the Reformation is justified because it ultimately led to liberty… for it is possible to argue against the whig historian that the ultimate issue which he applauds only came in the long run from the fact that, in its immediate results, The Reformation was disastrous to liberty.”

Herbert Butterfield book The Whig Interpretation of History

Source: The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.”

Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author

As quoted in Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic (1987) by Timothy Travers, p. 162.

“I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.”

Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian

Preface to the First Edition, p. 27
The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979)

Related topics