To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die. - Richard Hofstadter
The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.
- Richard Hofstadter
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the para… - Richard Hofstadter
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the para…
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the pow… - Richard Hofstadter
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the pow…
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men wit… - Richard Hofstadter
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men wit…
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to s… - Richard Hofstadter
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to s…
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. - Richard Hofstadter
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of sign… - Richard Hofstadter
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of sign…
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but … - Richard Hofstadter
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but …
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege. - Richard Hofstadter
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
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