History Quote by Christopher Allmand

“It is not a leap to suggest that all of the distinctive advances made between 1500 and today, for better or worse, were directly…

— Eric Robert Morse

“Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to…

— Frank Herbert

A radically new chapter in the history of war

— Jfc Fuller

“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at…

— John Keegan

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“War is fought over futile and feudal things. War is not about ideology, no matter how artfully framed, but it’s simply about power and…

— Jarod Kintz

The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.

— Max Boot

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

“It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption…

— Andrew Marr

The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

“Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again”

— George Orwell

“if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the ‘unmixing of peoples’ the order of nation-states, what’s on the horizon?”

— Kapka Kassabova