We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.