Voyage without a Harbor Quotes

“just as the modern state was needed to create the standing army, so the standing army created the modern state. The influence of the two causes was reciprocal”
― David D. Peck, Voyage without a Harbor: The History of Western Civilization in a Nutshell

“Michelangelo was not only widely famous during his lifetime, but actually wealthy as a result of producing art (he was the first Westerner to have a biography of his life published while he was living).”
― David D. Peck, Voyage without a Harbor: The History of Western Civilization in a Nutshell

“citizens—without regard to ethnicity. He called this place the cosmopolis, from which we derive the modern term cosmopolitan to describe a highly diverse urban culture.”
― David D. Peck, Voyage without a Harbor: The History of Western Civilization in a Nutshell