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…

- Randolph Bourne

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

- Randolph Bourne

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 make it impregnable, we m…

- Randolph Bourne

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 contrary, with …

- Randolph Bourne

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

- Randolph Bourne

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

- Randolph Bourne

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperati…

- Randolph Bourne

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting non…

- Randolph Bourne

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

- Randolph Bourne