In conclusion, he said, one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended...
In an article about the warning, the paper quoted Cunard’s New York manager, Charles Sumner, as saying that in the danger zone there is a general system of convoying British ships. The British Navy is...
In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That
If someone asks me why we did not use the regular courts I would reply: at the moment I was responsible for the German nation; consequently
I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time. Bloom
I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
Hitler’s cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering...
Hitler had just announced his decision to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations and from a major disarmament conference that had been under way in Geneva, off and on, since February 1932.
Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously, wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer. Even many Jews considered the savage anti-Semitic rantings of the Nazis merely a pr...
Governments from the top fail as often as those from the bottom; and every great failure brings a sad social reaction, thousands and millions of helpless men laying down their lives in the unhappy pro...
Goebbels was known for his wit; Martha, for a time, considered him charming. Infectious and delightful, eyes sparkling, voice soft, his speech witty and light, it is difficult to remember his cruelty,...
Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous—entirely too hopeful—to be true.
Edith wrote later, This was the accidental meeting which carried out the old adage of ‘turn a corner and meet your fate.
During her time at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington she had often become depressed and was hobbled by fatigue. In 1887, when she was twenty, she wrote in her diary, Tears come without any provocatio...
Camille’s rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees.
But one thing was quite clear… he wrote. [B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually,
But Hitler’s government was neither civil nor coherent, and the nation lurched from one inexplicable moment to another.
Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. This alone began...
Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.