Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
Historian
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Need
Platitudes
Needs
Uncompromising
Insistence
Phony
Rebirth
Satire
Dissent
Phoniness
Deception
Irreverence
More quotes by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
History is full of surprises.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
