Category: Verbatim

Quote du Jour

Buck Banks

The age-old barbarism, which for centuries lay bound and hidden under the severe discipline of a high culture, is again awakening that warlike healthy joy in one’s own strength, which despises the age of rationalistic thought and literature, that unbroken instinct of a strong race which wishes to live otherwise than under the pressure of books and bookish ideas.

— Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher

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Buck Banks

These solid people of capital, the press, the pulpit — where have they ever fought? They are accustomed to finding out by telegraph and telephone the results of battles which settle their fate.

— Leon Trotsky (1870-assassinated 1940), Soviet Russian leader, journalist

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Buck Banks

To criticize one’s country is to do it a service …. Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism — a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.

— J. William Fulbright (1905-1995), American senator