Behinds Quote by Seamus Heaney

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

— Seamus Heaney

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

— Tacitus

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

— Oswald Spengler

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace…

— Lord Acton

“Central to this conquest of the world was the belief that military victory is peace. There was even one line from the empire propaganda…

— Rob Bell

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

— Rick Perry

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

— George Carlin

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory…

— Stefan Zweig

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought…

— Michael Gruber

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti