“ 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. Randolph Bourne
“ Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph Bourne
“ Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embi… Randolph Bourne
“ Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph Bourne
“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph Bourne
“ We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. Randolph Bourne
“ A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them frien… Randolph Bourne
“ The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers. Randolph Bourne
“ The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much. Randolph Bourne
“ For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do. Randolph Bourne
“ The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours fr… Randolph Bourne
