History Quote by Edgar Quinet Download Open image “The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.” — Edgar Quinet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lorraine Mask Peace War
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Once war has been undertaken, no peace is made by pretending there is no war. — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
