Sentences with phrase «verdict of history»

Yet in both cases, the direction and verdict of history amount to the same thing: an ethical stance determined by public opinion and prevailing tastes.

William Lecky, a Victorian historian, had this to say: «Of that Byzantine empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed.

Indeed both she and her immediate predecessor, Anne of Cleves, suffer the worst from pejorative verdicts of history.

Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what «the stars foretell,» avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable «verdict of history» — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?

There is another element in gay rights rhetoric which is just as important: that which invokes the verdict of history.

In spite of the faith of the 18th - and 19th - century political reformers such as Voltaire and Marx in the «verdict of history,» the arena of political decisions is not likely to be a place where the big issues of life are discussed or decided solely or even primarily on the basis of truth and justice.

So today, they tell us, Christianity stands condemned by the verdict of history.

The verdict of history shall be kind to him.

Speakers Series: Nayland Blake — Brains, Beards and the Verdict of History: Some Queerness from the Bay Area

Pentti Linkola, a Finnish global - warming believer, summarizes the views of many environmentalists: «The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.»