Sermon · Religious literatureI renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it.Harry Emerson Fosdick1933★ 3.4
Political literatureThird parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die.Richard Hofstadter1955★ 1.9
Political literatureThe distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a "vast" or "gigantic" conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost trancendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is no the usual methods of political give and take, but an all-out crusade.Richard Hofstadter1964★ 1.9