The World Motivation
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
— Leo Tolstoy · History
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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”
“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
“Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.”
“The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.”
“Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.”
“Time is my greatest enemy.”
“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”