“There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.” WantRealityPoliticsCommunityHistoryGenerationsModernPolicyEuropeStrategyRussiaIdeologyTiesContradictionForeign PolicyInherentHistoricUkraineIntegrating Author:Susan Rice
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.” PeoplePastNationsTermHistoryProduceHistoricalContradictionJustifyHistorian Author:Eric Hobsbawm
“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?” ThinkingKindTwoHandsTogetherViewsHistoryShakesContradictionRepresentativesDaydreamingOpposingGet TogetherOpposing Views Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.” WorldMadeFictionHistoryThis WorldContradictionContradictory Author:William Blake
“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?” MenTruthUniverseHistorySubjectsJudgingPrideAll ThingsErrorsChaosRefuseMonstersUncertaintyContradictionResolveNoveltyImbecilesProdigiesSewers Author:Blaise Pascal
“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.” InspirationalMayMotivationalHistoryDifficultyFundamentalsUnityDespiteContradictionParadoxFramework Book:On History Source: On History
“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.” ThinkingMenMindUseTogetherCoursesNextHistoryForeverWiseMilitaryDecadesCleverContradictionApologyNext TimeEssaysInconsistency Author:Michael Howard