"One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion……" — Randolph Bourne
"One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part."
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Randolph Bourne
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21 Quotes by Randolph Bourne
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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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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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All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to…
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More Assertion Quotes
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
— Laozi
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I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever…
— Kirk Cameron
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
— Oscar Wilde
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or…
— Oscar Wilde
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The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
— Adolf Hitler
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
— Ayn Rand
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this…
— George Santayana
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented…
— Herbert Hoover
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