Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war. — 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
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
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
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
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
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
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
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
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
“No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how imperfect and jagged our life has been,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
