Abusive Quote by Noam Chomsky

“As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be…

— Charles Emmerson

“This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid…

— Jojo Moyes

“regimes of the twentieth century depended not just on repression and control of the populace but on the active construction of national myth. Here…

— Philip Ball

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius…

— William Shakespeare

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the…

— Ken Wilson

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society…

— Daniel Myerson

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for…

— J. J. Abrams

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale…

— A. N. Wilson

“Stories can make us remember—or forget—who we are. They have the power to topple governments or build empires. They are the life and breath…

— Laura Burroughs