Arthur Schlesinger Quotes (8 quotations)
1. Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. - Arthur Schlesinger
2. 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 Schlesinger
3. It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case. - Arthur Schlesinger
4. No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time. - Arthur Schlesinger
5. Righteousness is easy in retrospect. - Arthur Schlesinger
6. Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. - Arthur Schlesinger
7. The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. - Arthur Schlesinger
8. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. - Arthur Schlesinger
2. 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 Schlesinger
3. It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case. - Arthur Schlesinger
4. No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time. - Arthur Schlesinger
5. Righteousness is easy in retrospect. - Arthur Schlesinger
6. Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. - Arthur Schlesinger
7. The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. - Arthur Schlesinger
8. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. - Arthur Schlesinger
