"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."

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Source : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10

A. J. P. Taylor

#Wickedness Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Blunders Quotes

“I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.”
“In all things let reason be your guide.”
“To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
“Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.”
“I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.”
“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”

Source : Leo Strauss (2012). “Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought”, p.327, SUNY Press
“I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.”
“A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.”

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