John Lukacs Quotes

#1. All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

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#2. Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

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#3. Science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago ...

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#4. Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

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#5. In our dreams we do not think differently, we remember differently.

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#6. When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.

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#7. We are all national socialists now.

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#8. from Cicero: "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child always.

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#9. But then history does not only consist of documents.

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#10. Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

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