Accounts Quote by Frank Herbert

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox

“Historical accounts of philosophy deal with both the chronological development of ideas over time and the timeliness of those ideas in response to the…

— James W. Heisig

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

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

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

— Murray Edelman

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

— Oscar Wilde