History Quote by Ervand Abrahamian Download Open image ““One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history”” — Ervand Abrahamian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Ignorance could go only so far before it should be categorized as stupidity.” — Anna Scarlett Copy Share Image
“It's not that there is more stupidity. It just has more intrusive ways of presenting itself. It used to be, you could be near… — Tom Levine Copy Share Image
“But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“What a mess the world is in. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
“Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess” — Martin Boyd Copy Share Image
A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
“A Foreign Office diplomat in London wrote in the margins of a Tehran report: “I tend to the view that Musaddiq still enjoys some… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
“The British consul in Mashed later wrote in his memoirs that what had turned “Russia from hot-war ally to cold-war rival” was the “vigorous… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
“It was in describing these early bargaining tactics by the British oil company that Dean Acheson, the U.S. secretary of state, made his famous… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
“refused any aid until the oil issue was settled. Matters came to a head in August when Mossadeq for three days, backed by the… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
“Much of the public was convinced that the CIA was capable and willing to do so. Thus began the famous 444-day American hostage crisis.… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
