Betray Quote by Richard Overy

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

— Richard Overy

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Sometimes the great ideas needed for our greatest changes comes not from the great teachers of old, but from our own great ideas.

— Terry Mark

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before…

— Thomas Sowell

“I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

“In Ferdydurke, Gombrowicz got at the fundamental shift that occurred during the twentieth century: until then mankind was divided in two--those who defended the…

— Milan Kundera

“Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn’t going to a friend and loyalist.…

— Michael Wolff

“Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.”

— Samuel Shem

“Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the…

— Henry Hazlitt