John Lukacs Quotes

#1. To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

Victor Hugo

#2. I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Lorraine Toussaint

#3. 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.

John Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

#6. We are all national socialists now.

John Lukacs

#7. With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

John Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

#10. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

Brian Herbert

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

John Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

#14. When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.

Eknath Easwaran

#15. Red goes with everything and red goes with nothing.

Chloe Thurlow

#16. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.

John D. Lukacs

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

John Lukacs

#18. We cannot kill our way to victory.

Michael Mullen