Historians Are To Nationalism What Poppy-growers In

It Is One Of The Ironies Of This Strange Century That The Most Lasting Results Of The October Revolution, Whose Object Was The Global Overthrow Of Capitalism, Was To Save Its Antagonist, Both In War And In Peace - That Is To Say, By Providing It With The Incentive, Fear, To Reform Itself After The Second World War, And, By Establishing The Popularity Of Economic Planning, Furnishing It With Some Of The Procedures For Its Reform

It Is A Melancholy Illusion Of Those Who Write Books And Articles That The Printed Word Survives. Alas, It Rarely Does.

The Greatest Cruelties Of Our Century Have Been The Impersonal Cruelties Of Remote Decision, Of System And Routine, Especially When They Could Be Justified As Regrettable Operational Necessity.

(carmine Crocco) A Farm-labourer And Cowherd, Had Joined The Bourbon Army, Killed A Comrade In A Brawl, Deserted And Lived As An Outlaw For Ten Years. He Joined The Liberal Insurgents In 1860 In The Hope Of An Amnesty For His Past Offences, And Subsequently Became The Most Formidable Guerilla Chief And Leader Of Men On The Bourbon Side.

The Only Certain Thing About The Future Is That It Will Surprise Even Those Who Have Seen Furthest Into It.