Famous quotes by Historians

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately and often in bed"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate"

Sallust, Historian

"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual, has become natural"

Sallust, Historian

"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense"

Sallust, Historian

"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing"

Sallust, Historian

"Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits"

Sallust, Historian

"Before you act, consider; when you have considered, 'tis fully time to act"

Sallust, Historian

"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity"

Sallust, Historian

"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself"

Sallust, Historian

"Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old"

Sallust, Historian

"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue"

Sallust, Historian

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art"

Sallust, Historian

"In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery"

Sallust, Historian

"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others"

Sallust, Historian

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