Randolph Bourne Quotes

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
• War is the Health of the State.
• One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
• In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you…
• War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government…
• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places…
• The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the…
• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to…
• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none…
• He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
• A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
• All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
• If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the…
• Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.
• Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that…
• 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…
• Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it…
• Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious...

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