Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in...

A People's History of the United States

...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up...

A Place of Greater Safety

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick,...

Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan

Sınıf" sözcüğü kafanızı fazla karıştırmıyorsa, Fransız Devrimi'ne yol açan fikirler ve olayları kavramak kolaylaşır. Örneğin, genelde bugün işçi sınıfının artık varolmadığı, çünkü kol gücüne dayalı işlerde çalı�...

Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not w...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then th...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what it's like to fill a new prescription for glasses and suddenly see the world again, with a mixture of disappointment and gr...

The History of Love

Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It ...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part ...

The History of Love

Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in...

Christopher Hitchens

A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning...

James B. Stockdale

Tom Stall: [seeing that Leland and Orser mean trouble] Sir, we don't - we don't carry much cash here. You gentlemen are certainly welcome to all of it. Leland Jones: Oh, I know that, asshole. Believe me. I... do... [Leland pulls his gun and points it...

A History of Violence

History never repeats itself, historians do.

The Concept Of Jacksonian Democracy: New York As A Test Case

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

Eternal Curse: Giovanni's Angel

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

The Forgotten Garden

...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

Hidden History

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

The Hunt for Kohinoor