Harry Elmer Barnes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
-- Harry Elmer Barnes

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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
-- Harry Elmer Barnes

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In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.
-- Harry Elmer Barnes

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It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.
-- Harry Elmer Barnes

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.
The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
Words are good servants but bad masters.

Harry Elmer Barnes famous quotes

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