In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.
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
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
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
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
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…
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
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 …
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. - Randolph Bourne
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. - Randolph Bourne
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperati… - Randolph Bourne
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperati…
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
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…
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. - Randolph Bourne
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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