Geoffrey Barraclough quotes
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“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”
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“Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.”
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“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.”
-- Geoffrey Barraclough
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
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“If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.”
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“My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.”
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