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 Antidote 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
“While under the tsars the average number of executions was only seventeen, by 1918 the Cheka was killing an average of a… — Paul Johnson Executions Seventeen Copy Share Image
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people,… — Paul Johnson Activities Copy Share Image
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best… — Paul Johnson Attended Copy Share Image
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or… — Paul Johnson Abstract Copy Share Image
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of… — Paul Johnson Abdication Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Accepted Copy Share Image
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty… — Paul Johnson Absolutely Copy Share Image
“When I surrender to prolonged entreaties to accept an offer, repeated over and over again, I do so for the sake of… — Paul Johnson Peace Copy Share Image
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over… — Paul Johnson Ability Copy Share Image
“Lincoln could easily have used the excuse of Seward’s incapacity to avoid consulting him at all. But that was not his way.… — Paul Johnson Great men Copy Share Image
“Its spirit was animated by the same love of representative government and respect for the rule of law that had produced England’s… — Paul Johnson Love Copy Share Image
“Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in… — Paul Johnson Extravagance Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Any Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond,… — Paul Johnson Attack Copy Share Image
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of… — Paul Johnson Ages Copy Share Image
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes… — Paul Johnson Careers Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as… — Paul Johnson Boom Copy Share Image
“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the… — Paul Johnson Jacques rousseau Copy Share Image
“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
Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period… — Paul Johnson Accepted 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 Absorbing 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 Khrushchev 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 Could 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 Atmosphere Copy Share Image
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