Historical Quote by Sarah Vowell Download Open image “Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.” — Sarah Vowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historical People Violent
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew, incinerated human flesh. When the local… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“In the gravedigger scene in act V, Hamlet looks upon an anonymous skull and jokes that even Alexander the Great decomposed into dust that… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Another reason I’m intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Richmond says of herself: “I have few ladylike accomplishments. I cannot sing, I cannot draw, I cannot play the pianoforte or the harp… — Nicola Slade Copy Share Image
“While taste conveys the complexity of life, a good chef should keep in mind that food can have a meaning that is often not… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
