John Lukacs > Quotes

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”
― John Lukacs, Last Rites

“...science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago....”
― John Lukacs, Historical Consciousness

“...in our dreams we do not think differently, we remember differently.”
― John Lukacs

“I am writing this because on that night of the tenth of May in the 1,940th year of Our Lord, Churchill stood for more than England. Millions of people, especially across Europe, recognized him now as the champion of their hopes. (In faraway Bengal India there was at least one man, that admirably independent writer and thinker, Nirad Chaudhuri, who fastened Churchill's picture on the wall of his room the next day.) Churchill was _the_ opponent of Hitler, the incarnation of the reaction to Hitler, the incarnation of the resistance of an old world, of old freedoms, of old standards against a man incarnating a force that was frighteningly efficient, brutal, and new.”
― John Lukacs, The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler