There Are No Inevitabilities In History

If You Depart From Moral Absolutes, You Go Into A Bottomless Pit. Communism And Nazism Were Catastrophic Evils Which Both Derived From Moral Relativism. Their Differences Were Minor Compared To Their Similarities.

Democracy Has Many Enemies, And The Terrorist Is Only One Of Them.

The Most Evil Person I Ever Met Was A Toss-up Between Pablo Picasso And The Publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

The Second World War Took Place Not So Much Because No One Won The First, But Because The Versailles Treaty Did Not Acknowledge This Truth.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.