Quotes from John Lukacs

But then history does not only consist of documents.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.