Arrogant Quote by John Buchan

“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

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us…

— Leon Jouhaux

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as…

— Emile M. Cioran

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of…

— Jane Addams

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For…

— Arundhati Roy

“The modern creed – or worse, the belief that there’s nothing left to believe in – makes us blind to the shortsightedness and injustice…

— Rutger Bregman

“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if they were…

— James C. Scott

Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

— Sharon Lechter

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt