Randolph Bourne

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

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

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

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

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.

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.

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.