Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Quotes

• The things people had once held against her… unconventional beauty…un-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French food-were suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.

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• Ceremony, circus, farce, melodrama, tragedy…nothing else offers all at once the whirl, the excitement, the gaiety, the intrigue and the anguish.

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• He read partly for information, partly for comparison, partly for insight, partly for the sheer joy of felicitous statement. He delighted particularly in quotations which distilled the essence of an argument.

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• Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

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• If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

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• Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

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• Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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• We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

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• The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

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  Topics in Genius

• What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Reverence

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (11)

Birth:	15th October, 1917
Death:	28th February, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Writer

About

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian and social critic. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His work explored the liberalism of American political leaders, especially that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. He served as Special Assistant and Court Historian to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a lot about the Kennedy administration. These writings have the title A Thousand Days.

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