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“One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.”

History Stage Aspect Management Passing Passings Legacy Rhetoric Torches Unbreakable Doctoring

Book:And Yet...: Essays

Source: And Yet...: Essays

“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”

Suffering Humanity Process Race Christianity Principles History Stage Higher Civilization Infancy Barbarism

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Ifs Looks Kind Happens History Stage Integrity Somewhere Else Exit Entrances Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”

History Stage Universal Permanent Ritual Perpetual Commemoration

Book:Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

“It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.”

Writing Humans Doe Realizing Justice Human Beings Race History Stage Diversity Social Justice Historical Pity Human Race Jam

Author:Rebecca West

“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”

Humans Certain History Stage Produce Materials Survival Institutions Justification Deficit Repression

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.”