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“The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.”

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Book:The Miscellaneous Works

Source: The Miscellaneous Works

“You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?”

Art Philosophy History Tragedy Familiar Antiquity Homicidal

Author:Tom Stoppard

“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

Inspirational Political Politics History Gains Tools Tragedy Guides Criminal Mind

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.”

World Evil Hours History Tragedy Driven Shoulders Britain Our World Vengeance

Author:Tony Blair

“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”

Life Art Ideas Philosophy Seems Belief History Events Design Bears Elements Tragedy Relation Simplicity Inherent Bizarre Grandeur Bewildered Preconceived Ideas

Book:The Holy Terrors

Source: The Holy Terrors

“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”

Men Art Philosophy Earth Heaven Felt Animal History Hell Tragedy Crucifixion

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche