Political Quote by Randolph Bourne Download Open image “With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.” — Randolph Bourne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Political Politics Shock States War
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now where they feel that they can manage themselves. We have to go through an educational process - which does not involve, in my opinion, compromises with the State. But if the State disappeared tomorrow by accident, and the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusade. What shall we do with leaders who tell us that we go to war in moral spotlessness… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the… — Ben Eine Copy Share
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions.… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
