Uhlan/history/world War I

Famous quotes containing the words war i, history, world and/or war:

    “The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
    —E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)

    “We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)