Barbara W. Tuchman
American historian
Lived from: 1912 - 1989
Category: History and sociology Country: 
United States
Born: 30 january 1912 Died: 6 february 1989
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520― Barbara W. Tuchman
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