Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

Victor Davis Hanson — American Historian

Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets. He was a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson is perhaps best known for his 2001 book Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power... (wikipedia)

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

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