#history

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #earners #economic #history #led

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#develop #history #humour #i #i think

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#get #history #imperfect #job #journalist

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#american #american history #burn #did #down

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#day #his #history #life #man

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#history #i #lived #never #now

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. ↗

— Fred Ward

#after #each #history #just #just one

History, a distillation of rumour. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#history #rumour

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#angry #came #down #focus #got

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#history #i #part #wanted