“Augustine was struck by the fact, when they first met, that Ambrose read to himself, a habit unknown to the classical world:… — Paul Johnson Augustine Copy Share Image
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“As Khrushchev put it, “He prodded the capitalist world with the tip of his bayonet.” He himself put it, “If I see… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on… — Paul Johnson Climate Copy Share Image
“It was part of Rousseau’s vanity that he believed himself incapable of base emotions. ‘I feel too superior to hate.’ ‘I love… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson America Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her… — Paul Johnson Advice Copy Share Image
“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash… — Paul Johnson Character Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Absolutes Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could… — Paul Johnson Army Copy Share Image
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world ,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals],… — Paul Johnson Balance Copy Share Image
“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been… — Paul Johnson Intellectual Copy Share Image
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense,… — Paul Johnson Anti semitism Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And… — Paul Johnson Business Copy Share Image
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