Randolph Bourne quotes - page 2

And among all the Western Empires, the British and the American have always been the most adept at the use of phony moralizing to spin a web of excuses for their acts of conquest and to sucker the American and British publics into enthusiastic support of "their" Empires. It is the old trick of inducing the citizen to identify with "his" State; but the trick has always been most effective in time of war, real or imagined. That is just one of the reasons that the libertarian Randolph Bourne, during World War I, called war "the health of the State." (Randolph Bourne)

Randolph Bourne

Occupation: American Writer
Born: May 30, 1886
Died: December 22, 1918
Quotes count: 26
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