Strange Defeat Quotes

“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect to be told whenever a new piece of evidence may emerge, in the light of which it is quite possible that the whole elaborate structure of our conclusions will have to be changed.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“Comparez ces deux journaux quasi homonymes : The Times et Le Temps. Les intérêts, dont ils suivent, l’un et l’autre, les ordres, sont de nature semblable ; leurs publics, des deux côtés, aussi éloignés des masses populaires ; leur impartialité, également suspecte. Qui lit le premier, cependant, en saura toujours, sur le monde, tel qu’il est, infiniment plus que les abonnés du second. Même”
― Marc Bloch, L'Étrange Défaite

“How pleasant it is', says the Roman poet, 'to listen to a storm from the safe shelter of the shore.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat