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“The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.”

Men Way Ends Might Political Purpose Evil Effects Produce Judgment Shots Weight Forgiving Historical Intention Wide Passing Passings Remarks Pardon Good Intentions Texan Never Forgive

Book:Thomas H. Benton

Source: Thomas H. Benton

“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.”

Mind Different Events Produce Historical Scripts Deeds Opaque Generator Historical Events

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Knows Life Is Social Existence Consciousness Economy Focus Produce Materials Creatures Conscious Historical Productions Criteria Social Life Living Creatures Evaluation

Author:Moses Hess

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.”

Men Seems Action Humanity Impossible Greatness Produce Standards Historical Contrary Saving Great Men Conception Historian Thread Atrocities

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.”

Trying Mind War Process History Military Produce Bases Historical Academic Assurance Relentless Dismayed

Author:Herbert Butterfield

“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.”

People Past Nations Term History Produce Historical Contradiction Justify Historian

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.”