“Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.”
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: Why Marx Was Right
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter One, The Rabbi's Three Questions, p. 7
“Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.”
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: Why Marx Was Right
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity
Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
[Unenumerated Rights and the Dictates of Judicial Restraint, Address to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Stanford University. Palo Alto, California., http://web.archive.org/web/20080627022153/http://www.andrewhyman.com/1986kennedyspeech.pdf, 24 July 1986 to 1 August 1986, 13] (Also quoted at p. 443 of Kennedy's 1987 confirmation transcript http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/judiciary/sh100-1037/browse.html).
Bouck White (1874–1951) American author and novelist
Source: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. xxi
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry!”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Sometimes quoted as "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry" <br class="br">According to John A. Joyce's much-criticized biography Edgar Allen Poe (1901), this was said by Poe to William Barton. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=_cdEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=John+Alexander+Joyce+poe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIsuLtsoXUyAIVVSqICh2cqAI_#v=onepage&q=%22chicanery%2C%20fear%22&f=false
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901) American politician, 23rd President of the United States (in office from 1889 to 1893)
First State of the Union Address (1889)
“Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.”
P. C. Cast book Betrayed
Source: Betrayed
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) German artist
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics, Posters, Drawings (1981) by Renate Hinz
Other Quotes
Context: My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.