A. J. P. Taylor Quotes - Page 2

• Todo historiador ama el pasado, o debería hacerlo. Si no es así, ha equivocado su vocación; pero de amar el pasado a lamentar que haya cambiado hay un paso muy corto. El conservadurismo es nuestro mayor riesgo comercial; y nos acercamos mucho a los psicoanalistas al creer que las únicas personas "normales" son las que no causan problemas ni a sí mismas ni a nadie.

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  Correr, Arrepentirse, Pasado

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Libro de A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

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• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

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  Guerra, Mundo, Primeros

  A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

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  Book, People, Events

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.602, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

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  Children, Believe, Answers

  "A Personal History". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, p.301, 1983.

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• When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

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  Loyalty, Mistake, Writing

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• There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

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  Book, Reading, Feelings

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• Los psicoanalistas creen que las únicas personas "normales" son las que no causan problemas ni a sí mismas ni a nadie.

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  Depression, Believe, People

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• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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  Fear, Long, Age

  Observer (1981)

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• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

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  Beer, Men, Power

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• El empleado con su pluma de ave y su caligrafía de cobre se había ido para siempre. Su lugar lo ocupa la mecanógrafa. Fue un momento decisivo en la emancipación de la mujer.

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  Hands, History, Clerks

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

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• A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

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  Racing, Levels, Clients

  Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 7

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

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  Country, African Tribes, Missionary

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

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  Perfect, Soldier, Gentleman

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• One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

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  Drinking, Wine, Years

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• Más bien un fin en el horror, que un horror sin fin. No podía condenar principios que quizá tuviera que invocar y aplicar más tarde. El lobo no puede evitar haber sido creado por Dios tal como es, pero le disparamos igualmente si tenemos que hacerlo. El gran jugador en la diplomacia, como en el ajedrez, se hace la pregunta, ¿esto me mejora?, no mira los posibles beneficios marginales Si no puedes tener lo que te gusta, te debe gustar lo que tienes.

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  Player, History, Principles

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• Todas las demás formas de historia -la historia económica, la historia social, la historia psicológica, sobre todo la sociología- me parecen historia sin historia.

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  History, Psychological, Sociology

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

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• We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

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  Men, Behaviour, Infinite

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 34, 1957.

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• The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

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  Paz, Guerra, Batalla

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• George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

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  Kings, Would Be, Duty

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• The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

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  Office, Secret, Knows

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.603, Oxford Paperbacks

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