Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Books are humanity in print.
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The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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