A. J. P. Taylor

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.…

— A. J. P. Taylor

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements…

— A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage…

— A. J. P. Taylor

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

— A. J. P. Taylor

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved,…

— A. J. P. Taylor

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...

— A. J. P. Taylor

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like…

— A. J. P. Taylor

History is the great propagator of doubt.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and…

— A. J. P. Taylor

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer…

— A. J. P. Taylor

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

— A. J. P. Taylor

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

— A. J. P. Taylor

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more…

— A. J. P. Taylor