To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
BARBARA TUCHMANHuman behavior is timeless.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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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 appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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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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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around…. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.
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The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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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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