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“You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.”
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.”
“Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.”
“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”
“-Forced love hurts God.-How can you hurt something that doesnt exist?-At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around...”
“Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.”
“During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon an edible house inhabited by a witch, who impri...”
“She now discovered amidst them, the poet's flights of fancy, and the historian's seldom pleasingever instructive page. The first may transmit to posterity the records of a sublime genius, which onc...”
“I had been sent away to help guarantee and perpetuate this indifference. No one, here, knew what was happening anywhere else. Perhaps no one ever knows that, anywhere: wherever "here" may be, it mu...”
“As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and ...”
“Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.”
“Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and h...”
“I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably unleashed a world war. He had merely meant to move one step further. To be sure, he was ready to...”
“That is the way a white man remembers a battle. So many soldiers here, so many there. Such a captain here. Such a lieutenant there. This colonel in one place. That major in another. The horses prec...”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema.”
“The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)”
“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The thir...”
“...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.”
“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist”
