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Historian Of The Modern Age Inspirational Quotes (513)

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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.
Howard Zinn
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
E. P. Thompson
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. Thompson
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
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The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
Charles A. Beard
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I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
Howard Zinn
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Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
Henry Adams
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
George Bancroft
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Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
Howard Zinn
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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
Henry Adams
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
Carl L. Becker
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry Adams
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
Henry Adams
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The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.
Gerald Brenan
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It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
Golo Mann
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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
Howard Zinn
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
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Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
Henry Adams
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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
David Herbert Donald
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
C. V. Wedgwood
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All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Henry Adams
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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of the proper channels, a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.
Howard Zinn
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