Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and…

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

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it,…

— Colum McCann

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war”

— Will Durant 1968

I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.

— Jim Inhofe

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

— Frederick Lenz

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

— Peter Drucker

“Has anyone ever in recorded history kept a box of Pepperidge Farm cookies for longer than three days?”

— David B. Feinberg

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For perhaps the first time in recorded history, Coalhouse and I agree on something," Tom said.”

— Lia Habel