#the history of

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#back #been #century #demands #director

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#culture #history #human #human culture #novel

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #based #because #been #could

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #country #few #high #high office

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#car #cattle #deportation #fast #fiery

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#far #history #jeopardy #judging #justice

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#except #great #history #hot #little

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

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The history of art is the history of revivals. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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