Disillusionment Quote by Ralph Adams Cram Download Open image “The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.” — Ralph Adams Cram ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disillusionment Great war Progressive Revelations War
“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The Great War (1914-1918) – no one knew then it would be the first of two – transformed the world in ways that no… — Paul Brody Copy Share Image
“Revolution flashed as revelationary as revelation had been revolutionary.” — R. Vision Copy Share Image
“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was… — G.J. Meyer Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people do when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
