The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
Barbara TuchmanIf power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
Barbara Tuchman[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
Barbara TuchmanAfter absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.
Barbara Tuchman