Barbara Tuchman Quotes
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman 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.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Human behavior is timeless.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman 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.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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