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
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
elephants
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
motivational people way
All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.
slave precaution bourne
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
dimensions collaboration increase
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
mistake heart reflection
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.