History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

- F. M. Powicke

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

- F. M. Powicke

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of…

- F. M. Powicke

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

- F. M. Powicke