#historic

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#every #historical #history #itself #moves

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#coming #deceiving #either #fathers #himself

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#historic #home #marvelous #name #our

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#effect #generosity #great #great thing #had

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#fact #historical #historical fact #office #plain

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #category #crack #fell #fit

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#become #clear #complicated #contained #fight

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#epoch #fate #happenings #historical #humanity

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#day #fell #happened #historical #huge