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Randolph Silliman Bourne (/bɔːrn/; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death.

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War is the Health of the State.

Health, Libertarian, Liberty, State, War

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Greatest, Needs, Personality, Power Of One, Powers

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

Deflect, Knowing, Mean, Mistake, Price, Speak

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

Political, Politics, Shock, State, War

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Book, Books, Heaven, Like, Lying

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.

Anger, Society, Likes, Kind, Vast

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

Abolished, Dominance, Form, Genuine, States

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

People, Tragedy, Scratches, Experience, Exhaust

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.

Art, Cleverness, Diplomacy, Mean, States, War

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

Coercing, Government, Groups, Individuals, Passionate, War

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Fear, Guarding, Living, May, Quality

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.

Head, Heart, Idealist, Thirty, Twenties, Twenty

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Alert, Feelings, Ironic, Life, Promptly, Religious

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; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Discover, Friendship, Half, Man, Men, Sides