Cancer/history

Famous quotes containing the words cancer and/or history:

“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)