Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, western, civilization, cold and/or war:
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
—Phil Patton (b. 1953)
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Massa’s in de cold, cold ground.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)