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Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Canadian - Historian | December 23, 1943 -

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

Margaret MacMillan

Black And White History Black White

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

Margaret MacMillan

History Child Loved Because Worlds

I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.

Margaret MacMillan

Life Gratitude Children Food Games

I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'

Margaret MacMillan

River Name Now Heroes Up Historical

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe. Public opinion and, crucially, the cabinet was deeply divided on whether to intervene or stay out.

Margaret MacMillan

War Opinion Start Europe Out Break

Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.

Margaret MacMillan

World Look Down Wonder Hard Warning

The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.

Margaret MacMillan

Painting Writing World Speed Capture

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

Margaret MacMillan

Fight Decisions Agree Capacity Argue

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

Margaret MacMillan

End Fighting Finding Weapons Prevent

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

Margaret MacMillan

Peace World Easy Create Try Sides

If a bully wants to beat you up, you have the choice of running away or standing your ground. In our society, we have police forces who try to control bullies, sometimes by force.

Margaret MacMillan

Police Control Society You Choice

I first read the 'Raj Quartet' in the early 1970s, when Paul Scott's decision to set his novels in the dying days of the British Raj in India seemed an eccentric choice, almost as though he did not want readers. The British were tired of their imperial past.

Margaret MacMillan

Decision Past Tired Early Choice

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