Randolph Bourne
Randolph Bourne
Randolph Silliman Bournewas a progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 May 1886
CountryUnited States of America
Randolph Bourne quotes about
handling
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
carving conspiracy convenient niche placing society statue vast
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has
war liberty libertarian
War is the Health of the State.
war government minorities
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.
mistake mean self
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
elephants
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
dominance form passing
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.
motivational people way
All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
war political politics
With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.
personality needs power-of-one
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.
friendship men half
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.
slave precaution bourne
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
war healthy assertion
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
dimensions collaboration increase
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.