"Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime."

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Source : Harry Elmer Barnes (1980). “Revisionism: A Key to Peace and Other Essays”

Harry Elmer Barnes

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”
“Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement”
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.”
“Navalny is a blogger-turned-activist, but he finds stuff and he puts together these very, very clever, very high production value videos which underline the corruption at the top of the system, and there are millions of people who watch them. Some people think he must have some kind of protection inside the system because he hasn't yet been completely put out of commission; he's allowed to go on. He himself has said he wants to run for president.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.”
“The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.”

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