Any Quotes by Paul Johnson

“Partly by accident, partly by instinct, partly by deliberate contrivance, he was the first intellectual systematically to exploit the guilt of the privileged. And…

— Paul Johnson

“The Salem [witch] trials…can be seen as an example of the propensity of the American people to be convulsed by spasms of self-righteous rage…

— Paul Johnson

“Much of Sartre’s time in the 1960s was spent travelling in China and the Third World, a term invented by the geographer Alfred Sauvy…

— Paul Johnson

“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.' ”

— Paul Johnson

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked…

— Paul Johnson

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

— Paul Johnson

“Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One was his…

— Paul Johnson

“When we are dealing with concepts like freedom and equality, it is essential to use words accurately and in good faith. So the eighth…

— Paul Johnson

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around…

— Paul Johnson

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

— Paul Johnson

The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our…

— Paul Johnson

“As Khrushchev put it, “He prodded the capitalist world with the tip of his bayonet.” He himself put it, “If I see a door…

— Paul Johnson

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the…

— Paul Johnson

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it…

— Paul Johnson