Quotes Library

May 6, 2025

Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past…while we silence the rebels of the present.

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), American historian, educator, Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1959), Seldes p.89

What would he have to say about the events of January 6, 2021?

Rebellion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

May 1, 2025

10 months ago

Capitalism, as an institutional arrangement, has been singularly devoid of plausible myths.

September 11, 2025

6 months ago

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.

December 30, 2025

2 months ago

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

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