Quote by Victor Hugo

“These two misfortunes happen to armies, to become so terrified of the enemy that they are unwilling to attempt any offensive, and so bold…

— Onasander

“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”

— Grant Allen

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

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about race provided…

— Adam Hochschild

“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud,…

— James Baldwin

“What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks

“They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the…

— Kathy Hepinstall

“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou