History Quotes:

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false." -- Paul Johnson
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"In violence, we forget who we are ." Mary McCarthy : American novelist and critic,1912-1989
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"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes." Murray Edelman
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"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid." : Bob Dylan : American folksinger, b.1941