I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. — Paul Johnson Language Copy Share Image
If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting. — Paul Johnson Delight 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
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. — Paul Johnson 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 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
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. — Paul Johnson Family Copy Share Image
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson Artist 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 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 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 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
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
“Partly by accident, partly by instinct, partly by deliberate contrivance, he was the first intellectual systematically to exploit the guilt of the… — Paul Johnson Anger Copy Share Image
“With the decline of clerical power in the eighteenth century, a new kind of mentor emerged to fill the vacuum and capture… — Paul Johnson Mentor Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Advice Copy Share Image
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson America 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 Copy Share Image
“In particular, I want to focus on the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals to tell mankind how to conduct itself. How… — Paul Johnson Character Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Age Copy Share Image
“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to… — Paul Johnson Christianity Copy Share Image
“Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According… — Paul Johnson Christianity Copy Share Image
“When we are dealing with concepts like freedom and equality, it is essential to use words accurately and in good faith. So… — Paul Johnson Commandment Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Writer Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it. — Paul Johnson Knowledge Copy Share Image
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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