Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.
My father was a manual worker.
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.