A. N. Wilson Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

  A. N. Wilson

  War, Mistake, Book

• History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

  A. N. Wilson

  History, Doe, Grievance

• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, Opposites, History

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

• We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

  A. N. Wilson

  History, Judging, British History

  "The Victorians". Book by A. N. Wilson, 1970.

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