Barbara Tuchman Quotes
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman 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.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman 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.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman 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.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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