Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short-… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
