Blunders Quote by A. J. P. Taylor Download Open image “Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.” — A. J. P. Taylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blunders History Nature of man Wickedness
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back. — William Greider Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
