Donald Kagan Quotes
- In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses…
- War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states
- All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable…
- We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so…
- History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
- From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but…
- Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
- I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or…
- Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The…
- You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.