Historic Quotes
The Iranian revolution of today, therefore, is a natural heritage of the historical struggle for freedom and social equality among Arab people, who have continued to fight under the banner of Islam and to draw their inspiration from the teachings of the Koran and the prophet Muhammad (Page 4)
Nawal El Saadawi
If we consider him [Euclid] as meaning to be what his commentators have taken him to be, a model of the most unscrupulous formal rigour, we can deny that he has altogether succeeded, though we admit that he made the nearest approach.
Ab-Soul
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The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.
Chokha
[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/185.html?c=10 Fukuzawa, Yukichi in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures at the National Diet Library]
Yukichi Fukuzawa
Thousands of non-Muslim women were captured during the yearly campaigns of Firoz Tughlaq.
Kunwar Narain
I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black / The way the government downplays historical facts / 'Cuz the United States sponsored the rise of the Third Reich / Just like the CIA trained terrorists to the fight / Build bombs and sneak box cutters onto a flight
Immortal Technique
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By keeping historical events in their proper perspective, theology helps safeguard society and the Church from regarding as permanent what is only temporary. Critical reflection thus always plays the inverse role of an ideology which rationalizes and justifies a given social and ecclesial order.
Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.
Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Atatürk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Now that everything is, or may be, "digital" and could contemplate its membership in an e-category, the final product should be always studied, not only in its appearance, but in its process, structure, in its modes of functioning and of presentation / fruition and also in an historical perspective.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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At the confluence of East and West, Bucharest rose above its communist past into a city whose historical influences are reflected in the contrasting architectural fusion, a traditional-meets-modern outlook, and a stream of social happenings.
Gustave Eiffel
Oliver Cotton - Jack the Ripper
Wang Chong
[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/185.html?c=10 Fukuzawa, Yukichi in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures at the National Diet Library]
Fukuzawa Yukichi
He sent Sa’d b. Zayd al-Ashhali to Manāt in al-Mushallal and he pulled it down.
Ibn Tufayl
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Of all the provinces of India, Gujarat is the richest in the number and variety of its historical records.
Shabana Azmi
He sent Sa’d b. Zayd al-Ashhali to Manāt in al-Mushallal and he pulled it down.
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq