“The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.” WritingPoliticalPurposeFourHistoricalEnthusiasmImpulseMotiveProseSheerEgoism Author:George Orwell
“All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.” UseGovernmentMovingFormPrinciplesFourRightsLandShadowHistoricalFighterBelovedRevolutionaryAddressesOccupationTerritoryNegotiationPalestineHomelandPassing AwayForms Of GovernmentRifles Author:Yasser Arafat
“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.” WishHistoryMillionsRecordsFourHumourProjectsSlaveryGuiltHistoricalKillingBritishDecadesAmerican Indian Author:Andrew Roberts
“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.” MindHumansHas BeensGreaterFourProgressMankindRevolutionHistoricalImprovementIdeologyHuman MindVolumeCalamityReformationDespotismThis SocietyFrench RevolutionJesuit Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.” TryingBelieveKindMadeWarProblemArtistThreeFatherSpeakI BelieveParentBoysFourOur LivesHistoricalTraumaSpokesSurvivorHidingHolocaust Author:Christian Boltanski
“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.” WarMatterPhilosophyFightingThreeFourCostConsequenceEuropeSlaveryHistoricalSlaveNotionJewFlyingTyrannyGenocideTrustedBowlsSuper BowlNo War Author:Bill Whittle