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Randolph Bourne Quotes

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear Picture Quote #1

Self-recognition is necessary to know one’s road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one’s road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one Picture Quote #1

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense Picture Quote #1

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him Picture Quote #1

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience Picture Quote #1

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes Picture Quote #1

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A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part Picture Quote #1

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has Picture Quote #1

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 may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living Picture Quote #1

One keeps healthy in wartime... by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part Picture Quote #1

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves Picture Quote #1

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don’t have a head Picture Quote #1

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Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing Picture Quote #1

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing Picture Quote #1

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Self-recognition is necessary to know one’s road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one’s road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one (Randolph Bourne Quotes) War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense (Randolph Bourne Quotes) A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience (Randolph Bourne Quotes) He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes (Randolph Bourne Quotes) A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has (Randolph Bourne Quotes) 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 may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living (Randolph Bourne Quotes) One keeps healthy in wartime... by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part (Randolph Bourne Quotes) All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves (Randolph Bourne Quotes) If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don’t have a head (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books (Randolph Bourne Quotes) 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 (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing (Randolph Bourne Quotes) Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing (Randolph Bourne Quotes)