Travel Quote by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut,…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Unless US citizens acknowledge and understand their country's imperial past, they will not be able to understand its present or future. Much of the…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“to become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Capitalism seems to have failed and is now stigmatized as greed. A reaction against individual excess is driving the world back to collective values.…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Only three routes of upward mobility were available to socially ambitious upstarts such as Columbus: war, the Church, and the sea. Columbus probably contemplated…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States—almost as improbably as Solomon was of…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the…

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“To understand what was in Ivan’s mind, one has to think back to what the world was like before Machiavelli. The modern calculus of…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto