Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best… — Paul Johnson 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 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
“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
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
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson 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 Copy Share Image
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could… — Paul Johnson Army Copy Share Image
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a… — Paul Johnson Anti semitism 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
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Africa Copy Share Image
The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world ,… — Paul Johnson 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
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
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson 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 image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on… — Paul Johnson Climate Copy Share Image
“It was part of Rousseau’s vanity that he believed himself incapable of base emotions. ‘I feel too superior to hate.’ ‘I love… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash… — Paul Johnson Character Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Absolutes 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 Copy Share Image
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power… — Paul Johnson 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