Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

American historian

Alive from: 1912-1989

Category: History and sociology

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  After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

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  Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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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.
  Source: The book: a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors League of America, presented at the Library of Con

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  Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

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  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.

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  Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

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  For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

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  For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
  Source: A Distant Mirror

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  Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
  Source: A Distant Mirror