"Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states……" — Randolph Bourne
"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 have to gain more clumsily by means of war."
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Randolph Bourne
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21 Quotes by Randolph Bourne
Randolph Bourne has 21 quotes on this site.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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War is the Health of the State.
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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for…
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the…
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and…
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The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without…
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our…
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
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He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
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A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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