Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it. — Paul Johnson Ended Copy Share Image
“This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the… — Paul Johnson Christianity Copy Share Image
If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide… — Paul Johnson Doors Copy Share Image
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson Century 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 About Copy Share Image
It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. — Paul Johnson Decades 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
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. — Paul Johnson Feels 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 Another Copy Share Image
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and… — Paul Johnson Both 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 Modern world 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 Arrested 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
The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. — Paul Johnson Language 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 Copy Share Image
“Brecht’s ‘basic laxity’ was one reason why, apart from his satellites and those tied to him by party bonds, he was generally… — Paul Johnson Every day 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
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. — Paul Johnson About Copy Share Image
“Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s… — Paul Johnson Darkness at noon Copy Share Image
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. — Paul Johnson Arizona Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the… — Paul Johnson Character 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
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents. — Paul Johnson Battle Copy Share Image
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. — Paul Johnson Action Copy Share Image
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. — Paul Johnson Beautiful Copy Share Image
