Demands Deportation Quotes by Norman Davies

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

— Norman Davies

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

— Norman Davies

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale…

— Norman Davies

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

— Norman Davies

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense…

— Norman Davies

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

— Norman Davies

It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.

— Norman Davies

“Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable”

— Norman Davies

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

— Norman Davies

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

— Norman Davies

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.

— Norman Davies

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

— Norman Davies