Effects Quote by Pieter Geyl Download Open image “Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.” — Pieter Geyl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effect Speeding Effects History Process Process History Speeding Speeding Process Speeding up War Wars Wars Usually
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways. — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
