Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
BARBARA TUCHMANWoman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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