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Why Don't We Learn from History? QUOTES

Why Don't We Learn from History? QUOTES

1 " Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency. "

― B.H. Liddell Hart , Why Don't We Learn from History?

2 " If you wish for peace, understand war. "

― B.H. Liddell Hart , Why Don't We Learn from History?

3 " Man seems to come into the this world with an inalterable belief that he knows best and that he can make others think as he does by force. (How else do we explain why leading men in government madly propose the use of nuclear weapons against the people of another nation because of a trade dispute?) Nations delight in having a militaristic leader represent them and thrive on enforcing their will on lesser powers with a view to the glory and plunder that will follow victory. Peoples are never so united as in the early days of war nor so determined to overcome once they see that a greater effort and more sacrifices will be demanded of them before success is won. All very noble and all fantasy. Has any war in the history of the world followed such a pattern? None on the Ship of Fools ever asks. "

― B.H. Liddell Hart , Why Don't We Learn from History?

4 " The vital influences are to be detected not in the formal documents compiled by rulers, ministers, and generals but in their marginal notes and verbal asides. Here are revealed their instinctive prejudices, lack of interest in truth for its own sake, and indifference to the exactness of statement and reception which is a safeguard against dangerous misunderstanding. I "

― B.H. Liddell Hart , Why Don't We Learn from History?

5 " We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles. "

― B.H. Liddell Hart , Why Don't We Learn from History?