Quote by Erik Larson Download Open image ““As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”” — Erik Larson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.” — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time,… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as… — William Struse Copy Share Image
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“anger sweeping society expressed itself in significantly rising crime rates and everyday violence.26” — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service industries,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“They concluded that the predominant emotion was anger and that, compared to words like sadness or fear, expressions of aggression increased in the days… — Daniel Domscheit-Berg Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps in part… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that… — Erik Larson Copy Share
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
