Human power Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

“Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism…

— Naomi Ragen

“Geopolitical, cultural, and ideological crises were shaking confidence in the authority of established Western civilization so severely that sensible people believed that the end…

— Robert Tombs

“In the East, things were better. More brotherhood, communication, curiosity. Primordial landscapes, more sacred places.”

— Paolo Rumiz

“In the conflict between Israelis and Arabs you have wounded civilizations — the Arabs have been wounded in their dealings with the West, and…

— Itamar Rabinovich

“There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border town of such intensely…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me,…

— Franz Kafka

“Palestinians and Israelis were connected by a fatalistic dialectic, whose movement was punctuated by violence and directed towards an apocalyptic conclusion. One might argue…

— R.F. Georgy

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

“For centuries Eastern heart and intellect have been absorbed in the question � Does God exist? I propose to raise a new question �…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal