Every day Quote by Paul Johnson

“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political…

— Harold Bloom

“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.…

— David Mamet

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

“Still more central to his anger and frustration, and lying perhaps at the very roots of his hatred for the capitalist system, was his…

— Paul Johnson

“Rousseau alienated his aristocratic patrons; he quarrelled with most of his friends and well-wishers, including Hume and Diderot, many of whom also ended up…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Hitler’s scholastic failure rankled in him in later life, when he heaped ridicule on the academic “gentry,” their degrees and diplomas and their pedagogical…

— William L. Shirer

“It never, however, drove him to the extremity of trying to find a regular job. As he makes clear in Mein Kampf, he had…

— William L. Shirer

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

— Robert Nozick

His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person,…

— Max Born

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish…

— Hilari Bell

“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to…

— Jewel Spears Brooker