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Top 25 Randolph Bourne Quotes (2024 Update)

Randolph Bourne Quote: “A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.”

1. “A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “War is the Health of the State.”

2. “War is the Health of the State.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.”

6. “Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.”

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

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.”

8. “With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.”

9. “He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “A cultivation of the powers of one’s personality is one of the greatest needs of life.”

14. “A cultivation of the powers of one’s personality is one of the greatest needs of life.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “Taste is the only morality.”

15. “Taste is the only morality.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”

19. “All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society’s folk ways, as counters in the game of society’s ordaining, are outlawed.”

20. “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

Randolph Bourne Quote: “The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.”

21. “The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.”

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

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.”

23. “In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”

24. “We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”

— Randolph Bourne

Randolph Bourne Quote: “So to all who are situated as I am, I would say – Grow up as fast as you can.”

25. “So to all who are situated as I am, I would say – Grow up as fast as you can.”

— Randolph Bourne

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