History Quote by Jean d'Ormesson

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

— Anton Chekhov

“all causes of rivalry and clash are senseless and so need no defining or explanation ... Don’t ever fight. No cause is worth a…

— R.K. Narayan

“If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict…

— Patrick N. Allitt

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of…

— Karl Jaspers

“What just cause can be found for the encounter of so many nations, or what hatred inspired them all to take arms against each…

— Jordanes

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”

— Heraclitus

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

Rivals are not your enemies; for they are the people who tend to seek to surpass each other helping each others by trying their…

— Anonymous

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

— Charles Krauthammer

“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus far, scholars…

— Thaddeus Russell

“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion between the…

— Winston Churchill