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.
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.
