Famous quotes containing the words threatened and/or historic:
“This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in “the social” our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial cosiness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)