A. J. P. Taylor Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Witty, War, History

  'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10

• If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Strong, Hero, History

• History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Past, Names, People

• History is the great propagator of doubt.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  History, Doubt

• History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  History, Events, Convincing

• Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Winning, History, Doe

• Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Player, History, Principles

• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Hands, History, Clerks

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks

• All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  History, Psychological, Sociology

  The A J P Taylor (1980). “Politicians, Socialism, and Historians”, H. Hamilton

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