T E Lawrence Quotes

“History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.”
― Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“After Lawrence’s death, Richards remembered the night they first met, when they sat in front of the fire in his room and they talked and talked, and he unfolded what seem then the extraordinary thought that the world stopped in xv with the coming of printing and gunpowder, then, late that night some deep and quick affection took hold of upon us whose vividness stirs me still and thirty years of passed away. Perhaps Lawrences family also sensed, as parents can do and as Lawrence himself did not something that Richards only admitted too late in life, that he was in love with his friend, it was love at first sight. He received my affection, my sacrifice, eventually my total subservience as though it was his due.”
― Anthony Sattin

“When T. E. Lawrence was fighting the Turks in the deserts of the Middle East during World War I, he had an epiphany: It seemed to him that conventional warfare had lost its value. The old-fashioned soldier was lost in the enormous armies of the time, in which he was ordered about like a lifeless pawn. Lawrence wanted to turn this around. For him, every soldier's mind was a kingdom he had to conquer. A committed, psychologically motivated soldier would fight harder and more creatively than a puppet.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power