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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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