Robert Kee > Quotes

“Socialist theory had been developed by Robert Owen in Britain long before Karl Marx,”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“If you get World War Three it might mean the end of the human race – and if we haven’t got the guts to stop it we deserve such an end.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“The way things looked before later events made them look different. And this is as much a part of history as the way things actually were.”
― Robert Kee

“If all the heavens were paper and all the water in the world were ink and all the trees were turned into pens, you could not even then record the sufferings and horrors.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“newspapers do provide invaluable historical evidence not only of forgotten events but also of the way things looked before later events made them look different. And that is as much a part of history as the way things actually were.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind

“The peace proposal boils down to the simple proposition that a burglar should be confirmed in his loot and given complete indemnity, in return for which he offers a conditional promise to cease housebreaking.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind

“Nations,’ he said, ‘which can plan and fight together shoulder to shoulder in the face of such obstacles and of distance and of language and of communications as we have overcome, can live together and work together in the coming labour of the organisation of the world for peace.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“Vistula”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“As the world waited for Hitler’s reply, his admirers acknowledged his birthday in appropriate fashion. Goering saluted him as ‘the greatest German of all time’ and continued: ‘Let the politicians and statesmen of the world forge their plans and intrigues; let journalists spout forth poison against us; for us, undisturbed by their shrieks, only the world of Adolf Hitler is valid.… Lord God, protect the Führer and bless his work.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind