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Quotes by Historian
"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."
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"They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
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"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."
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"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."
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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."
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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty."
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."
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"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
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"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all."
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."
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