Political history is largely an account of mass violence…

“These are people who take up mass violence as a personal assertion or political statement to compensate for their own hopelessness, pathos, failure, and/or…

— John E. Douglas

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

— Joe Manchin

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

— Susan Sontag

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the…

— Roy Blunt

“The pygmy in Gikongoro said that humanity is part of nature and that we must go against nature to get along and have peace.…

— Philip Gourevitch

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

— Edward Abbey

“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

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

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

On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years,…

— James Parton

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria