Author: Norman Davies

Quotes

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

- Norman Davies

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

- Norman Davies

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

- Norman Davies

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

- Norman Davies

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.

- Norman Davies

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

- Norman Davies

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

- Norman Davies

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

- Norman Davies

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