Home / Topics / Evidence Quotes

Evidence Quotes

Browse 2987 quotes about Evidence.

Evidence Quotes

“As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.”

Discipline Training Evidence Historian Documentaries

Author:David Dixon

“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).”

Shows Standards Evidence Accounts Absolutes Responsible British Proof Holocaust Documentaries Bombing Double Standard British History Dresden Convicts Circumstantial Evidence

Book:History in Our Time

Source: History in Our Time

“I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.”

“An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.”

Art Artist Evidence Accounts Photograph Works Of Art Documentaries Eyewitnesses

Author:Dieter Roth

“Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.”

World Littles Social Understanding Mountain Photography Evidence Terror Critical Envy Nostalgia Genre Documentaries Documentary Photography

Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

“Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.”

Way War Reason Law Courses Evidence Criminals Trials Sufficient Germany Nazi Documentaries Tangible

Author:Marvin Hier

“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.”

Ifs Mean Persons Doe Has Beens Law Humanity Cases Crime Example Lows Evidence Trials Camps Acceptable Documents Documentaries 80s Crimes Against Humanity Death Camps

Author:Marvin Hier

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

Way Needs Has Beens Made Moments Past Political Politics Party Opinion Records Minutes Expression News Evidence Clean Predictions Documentaries Items Up To Date Palimpsest

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.”

Eye Evidence Possession Proof Concrete Documentaries Proclaiming

Author:Jorge Amado