A Quote by Lord Acton

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Lord Acton

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Lord Acton
January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.

Min Jin Lee

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor

The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that of adapting their words and actions to the text of old documents or generally accepted doctrines: they themselves created the documents and brought about the acceptance of their doctrines.

Max Horkheimer

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Julian Assange

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Gottfried Bohm

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Matt Blunt

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Ian Mcewan

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Martin Luther

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Harper Lee

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production Fifth Estate's portrayal of the Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

Nick Davies

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

Carlos Castaneda

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