Dumbness Quote by Eric Wolf Download Open image “The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.” — Eric Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dumbness Force History Majors Military Sheer World World history
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest. — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
History is about great forces, yes, but also about contingency. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business… — Carl W. Ackerman Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to… — Eric Wolf Copy Share Image
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of… — J. B. Handelsman Copy Share Image
“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness. — John Tortorella Copy Share Image
AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years. — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
