Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Edward Luttwak, fully Edward Nicolae Luttwak

In frontless war where there are no clear lines on the map to show victory and defeat, the only true measure of progress must be political and nonquantifiable: the impact on the enemy’s will to continue the fight.

Defeat | Enemy | Progress | War | Will |

Douglas MacArthur

The history of failure in war can be summed up in two words: Too Late.

Failure | History | War | Words | Failure |

John Macmurray

The plainest historical evidence for the effectiveness of religion as a positive social form lies in the history of the Jews.

Evidence | History | Religion |

Andrzej Milczanowski

It’s not enough to be right. That’s too little. It’s also important to be strong. The history of the world shows that more often people who were right lost than won.

Enough | History | Important | Little | People | Right | World |

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do.

Day | Success | Will | Learn |

Thomas Paine

[The Bible] is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Bible | History | Mankind | Wickedness |

Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

All big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

History |

Raymond Queneau

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortunes.

Happy | History | Mankind | Nations | Study |

Michael Pupin, fully Michael Idvosky Pupin

The human soul, in so far as science can penetrate, is the last chapter of cosmic history as far as it has been written. It is in the soul that Divinity resides.

Divinity | History | Science | Soul |

Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

The history of morals is the extension of the reciprocal or selfish virtues from the clan to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, from the nation to all communities living under the same government, civil or religious, then people of the same colour, and finally to all mankind.

Government | History | Mankind | People |

Jonathan Schell, fully Jonathan Edward Schell

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

History | Men | Nature | World |

Haile Selassie

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Better | Evil | History | Indifference | Justice | Silence |

Sydney Smith

Justice - Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is the attribute of God.

Freedom | God | Justice | Peace | Truth |

Haile Selassie

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is grater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

God | History | Lord | Will | God |

William Ritchie Sorley

Men are free to work out their purposes, and, at the same time, there is a divine purpose in the world which human history fulfills and to which the environment of nature is subordinate. Here God and man meet.

God | History | Man | Men | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Time | Work | World | God |

Achmad Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo

Revolution is only true revolution if it is a continuous struggle – not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing all negative aspects which hinder or do damage to the course of the revolution. In this light, revolution is… a mighty symphony of victory over the enemy and over oneself.

Enemy | Fighting | Light | Revolution | Struggle |

Gerald Vann

We of the modern West are the only people in the whole history of the world who have refused to find an explanation of the universe in a divine mind and will.

History | Mind | People | Universe | Will | World |