Quotes by Randolph Bourne

About Randolph Bourne:

Randolph Silliman Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death.
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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

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

Randolph Bourne

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

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

Randolph Bourne

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

Randolph Bourne

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

Randolph Bourne

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with ...

Randolph Bourne

War is the health of the state.

Randolph Bourne

The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusad...

Randolph Bourne

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

Randolph Bourne

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

Author Bio

  • NameRandolph Bourne
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 30, 1886
  • DiedDecember 22, 1918
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor