#his

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#asked #deaf #deaf people #go #historians

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#dark #distinction #drifts #further #his

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. ↗

— Donald Trump

#attack #dogs #hate #hearts #his

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#gentleman #had #his #hon #interrogations

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #books #everything

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#borrowed #changes #ever #history #late

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. ↗

— Voltaire

#himself #his #husband #much #often

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. ↗

— Alan Watts

#buddhism #cosmic #down #idea #laid

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends