“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.”
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
Barbara W. Tuchman“Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman“Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August“Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute“Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute“The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute“These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle”
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