Famous quotes containing the words history, poland and/or partitions:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)