„Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.“

— Jane Austen

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„Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?“
— Virginia Woolf
„My reading of history has shown me that simply 'being a good man' is not enough. That there are many kings who are good men and yet bad kings. And even good kings sometimes make disastrous decisions. So government is complex, politics is complex.“
— George Raymond Richard Martin
„War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.“
— Heraclitus
„War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.“
— Heraclitus