Historical Omission Quotes

#1. Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.

Aurin Squire

#2. When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all.

Hilaire Belloc

#3. An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

Rachel Caine

#4. Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#5. It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

Afrika Bambaataa

#6. Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Rob Simmons

#7. The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

Howard Zinn

#8. Today is a good day for war to end.

Deepak Chopra

#9. To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Paulo Freire

#10. Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Lorrie Moore

#11. In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. I'm not letting you go, baby girl. You need to accept that.

A. Zavarelli

#13. I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Bjork

#14. ...tired people don't give up. Tired people just take a rest. Rest a bit and try again.

Susan Meissner

#15. I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Carrie Brownstein

#16. The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Helen Keller