Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries…

— Leo Tolstoy

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct…

— Edward Lear

“Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those…

— Joy Hakim

“In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.”

— Ann Aguirre

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

— Paolo Rumiz

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a…

— Murray Kempton

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“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

“Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire…

— Paul S. Kemp

“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its fear of…

— Salman Rushdie

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings