Politics Quote by Helmut Walser Smith

“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political…

— Ilia Delio

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city or empire…

— Gene Doucette

“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to…

— Barry Unsworth

“What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?... The war had become, it it…

— Daniel Alarcón

“Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“The Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857 was the crime of that century... it was a crime that disgraced humanity.”

— J. F. Giffard

“The city went on about its business. A new day would soon begin, and nothing so inconsequential as a death possessed the power to…

— R.J. Ellory

“First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That’s how it’s always gone.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams