Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
Jennifer DonnellyTag: royalty kings french-revolution louis-xiv versailles
It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.
Maurice MinnifieldTag: history marie-antoinette france versailles 18thc loius-xiv northern-exposure
Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette
Kathryn LaskyTag: dreams marie-antoinette princess versailles kathryn lasky
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
John Maynard KeynesTag: france world-war-1 keynes versailles paris-peace
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when wages rise, and the profiteer when prices fall, the man in the street does not inquire. Nor does he notice that wages and prices rise and fall together. If he is a capitalist, he wants wages to fall and prices to rise; if he is a wage earner, he wants the opposite. When a currency expert tries to explain that profiteers and trade unions and ordinary employers have very little to do with the matter, he irritates everybody, like the man who threw doubt on German atrocities. (In World War I) We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to have when we suffer. It is so depressing to think taht we suffer because we are fools; yet taking mankind in mass, that is the truth. For this reason, no political party can acquire any driving force except through hatred; it must hold someone to obloquy. If so-and-so’s wickedness is the sole cause of our misery, let us punish so-and-so and we shall be happy. The supreme example of this kind of political thought was the Treaty of Versailles. Yet most people are only seeking some new scapegoat to replace the Germans.
Bertrand RussellTag: hate blame world-war-i scapegoat versailles treaty-of-versailles
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