Randolph Bourne Quotes

#1. The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

Randolph Bourne

#2. War is the health of the state.

Randolph Bourne

#3. You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Max Hastings

#4. And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

Moshe Kasher

#5. In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Zack Wamp

#6. In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.

Randolph Bourne

#7. You have to be more prepared than anyone else in the room, even if you aren't planning on speaking up. (Read two articles on a subject every morning and you'll shine - trust me. It's how I make my living.)

Greg Gutfeld

#8. The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.

Cameron Conaway

#9. The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

Randolph Bourne

#10. 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

#11. For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.

Randolph Bourne

#12. To have a kind heart is everything

Marcel Proust

#13. 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

#14. You have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all the information has been aired. At that point, if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the tie.

Patrick Lencioni

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

Randolph Bourne

#16. 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

#17. It is a mistake to conceive of choice and decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula. That omits the most important element of decision-making, namely the creation of new options. Good

David Deutsch

#18. Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Peter L. Berger

#19. With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

Randolph Bourne

#20. If there is progress then there is a novel.

William Carlos Williams

#21. For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

Randolph Bourne

#22. Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.

Randolph Bourne

#23. 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

#24. What the government will or will not do is finally beside the point. If people do not have the government they want, then they will have a government that they must either change or endure. Finally,

Wendell Berry

#25. 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

#26. All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Randolph Bourne

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

Randolph Bourne

#28. The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Randolph Bourne

#29. A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Randolph Bourne

#30. The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

#31. Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.

Randolph Bourne

#32. 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 the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

Randolph Bourne

#33. Life has taught Alice Bhatti that every little step forward in life is preceded by a ritual humiliation. Every little happiness asks for a down payment. Too many humiliations and a journey that goes in circles means that her face is permanently in the red. She accepts that role. 'I'll do my best'.

Mohammed Hanif

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

Randolph Bourne

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

Randolph Bourne

#36. We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.

Randolph Bourne

#37. So to all who are situated as I am, I would say
Grow up as fast as you can.

Randolph Bourne

#38. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Bourne

#39. We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Randolph Bourne

#40. I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

Nelson Shanks

#41. He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

Randolph Bourne