Tony Stark: [Discussing S.H.I.E.L.D] An intelligence agency that FEARS intelligence? Historically, not awesome.
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmen...
What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done with you. You hear me? I want you to go back to your places now and stay with your children until I say you’re needed. “Tell your wive...
Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant "existing things" does not re...
He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them; he must show how these parts originated, and how they came to be in that relation in which they stand to each other. ...
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.
An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.
P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.
