"Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels."

H. A. L. Fisher See all quotes by H. A. L. Fisher →

React to this quote

More by H. A. L. Fisher

“I can see … only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”

“All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed.”

“It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers.”

“Politics is the art of human happiness.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by short people. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows."

— Erich Maria Remarque

Literature1898–1970

#happiness

"Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will e…"

— John Perry Barlow

Literature1947–2018

#time

"We have an agreeable piece of intelligence from the eastward; which is, that Colonel Campbell and thirty or forty officers, and six or eight sail of transports, bound to Europe, were taken lately, by …"

— Nathanael Greene

Military1742–1786

#war