Blood Quote by James Lileks

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of…

— Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

— Bryan Stevenson

“At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional…

— J.G. Ballard

“That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a…

— Tennessee Williams

Let's celebrate Columbus day by walking into someone's house and telling them we live there now.

— Anonymous

“With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.”

— Ph.D Alan Axelrod

“In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest,…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

— Rush Limbaugh

“After forty years of selling wholesale industrial deodorizing supplies, one establishment is forced to open its doors to the public. In the lingo of…

— Ben Katchor

“Consumerism has a religious day called Black Friday.”

— Jarod Kintz