Top 10 Ben Rhodes Quotes (2024 Update)

Ben Rhodes Quote: “History looks very different depending upon which window you open to look at it.”

1. “History looks very different depending upon which window you open to look at it.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “Nations arise telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats. But those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different. The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.”

2. “Nations arise telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats. But those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different. The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “People always say never again,” he said. “But they never want to do anything.”

3. “People always say never again,” he said. “But they never want to do anything.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “Privately, Obama was telling people that his sympathies were with the people. If it were up to him, he told McFaul, he’d prefer that “the Google guy” run Egypt, referring to Wael Ghonim, a prominent activist who was helping to lead the protest movement.”

4. “Privately, Obama was telling people that his sympathies were with the people. If it were up to him, he told McFaul, he’d prefer that “the Google guy” run Egypt, referring to Wael Ghonim, a prominent activist who was helping to lead the protest movement.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “Progress doesn’t move in a straight line.”

5. “Progress doesn’t move in a straight line.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “We demonstrated weakness, and the weak are beaten.”

6. “We demonstrated weakness, and the weak are beaten.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “In a way, he was just like the rest of us – trying out different theories for what had happened, trying to figure out what it meant, what it said about us as a country. But of course he was different. He’d seen the country, and the world, from a different perch. And the one thing he kept coming back to was the expanse of time, the fact that we were just “a blip” in human history. In giving advice on how to deal with Trump, he offered a simple maxim: “Find some high ground, and hunker down.”

7. “In a way, he was just like the rest of us – trying out different theories for what had happened, trying to figure out what it meant, what it said about us as a country. But of course he was different. He’d seen the country, and the world, from a different perch. And the one thing he kept coming back to was the expanse of time, the fact that we were just “a blip” in human history. In giving advice on how to deal with Trump, he offered a simple maxim: “Find some high ground, and hunker down.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “It’s as important, if not more important, to create alternative identities in terms of more local communities – communities of chosen values, which for some people might be religion and church, and for others might be the hiking club or a sports club. What’s important is that people don’t feel lost. Nationalism affects mainly those who need ties, need bonds to communities, and don’t have them.”

8. “It’s as important, if not more important, to create alternative identities in terms of more local communities – communities of chosen values, which for some people might be religion and church, and for others might be the hiking club or a sports club. What’s important is that people don’t feel lost. Nationalism affects mainly those who need ties, need bonds to communities, and don’t have them.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “Barack Obama made this entire story possible, taught me more than I could ever put into words, and continues to give me faith in the world as it ought to be.”

9. “Barack Obama made this entire story possible, taught me more than I could ever put into words, and continues to give me faith in the world as it ought to be.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “The final takeover does not happen with one spectacular Reichstag conflagration, but is instead an excruciating, years-long process of many scattered, seemingly insignificant little fires that smolder without flames. – Ece Temelkuran.”

10. “The final takeover does not happen with one spectacular Reichstag conflagration, but is instead an excruciating, years-long process of many scattered, seemingly insignificant little fires that smolder without flames. – Ece Temelkuran.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “The Tea Party was built on the wreckage of American capitalism, American leadership, and the Republican Party – making possible everything that came next, including Trump.”

11. “The Tea Party was built on the wreckage of American capitalism, American leadership, and the Republican Party – making possible everything that came next, including Trump.”

Ben Rhodes Quote: “It foreshadowed a problem we’d confront going forward – we were winning without the people who were the arbiters of opinion in Washington, people who were going to withhold a measure of praise so long as they weren’t occupying the constellation of positions around Obama.”

12. “It foreshadowed a problem we’d confront going forward – we were winning without the people who were the arbiters of opinion in Washington, people who were going to withhold a measure of praise so long as they weren’t occupying the constellation of positions around Obama.”

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