Elisee Reclus Quotes

Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • History
  • Think
  • You

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Lies
  • Agreed

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • History
  • Forever

• With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Me
  • Testing

• Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • History
  • Shopping
  • Early

• The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Work
  • American
  • History

• History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • May
  • History
  • Three

• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Long
  • History
  • Potential

• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • History
  • Unique

• The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • History
  • Government

• Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Age

• As a philosopher sympathetic to Foucault recently remarked to me, Foucault failed in each of his major inquiries and, in desperation, went further afield from his areas of expertise. The History of Sexuality is a disaster. Page after page is sheer fantasy, unsupported by the ancient or modern historical record.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound,

  

  Adam Smith
  • Different
  • Nature

• I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Time
  • Power
  • Earth

• Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.

  

  Elisee Reclus
  • History
  • Geography
  • In Time