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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
6 quotes
“Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense... in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The hope of the future lies in the widening and deepening of the democratic middle ground.” New York Times Magazine, April 4, 1948 (sec. 6)
“[F]ascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The hope of the future lies in the widening and deepening of the democratic middle ground.” New York Times Magazine, April 4, 1948 (sec. 6)
“Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966) p. 91
“The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cycles of American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 422
“The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1993) p. 93
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women’s history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not as filiopietistic commemoration. The purpose of history is to promote not group self-esteem, but understanding of the world and the past, dispassionate analysis, judgment, and perspective, respect for divergent cultures and traditions, and unflinching protection for those unifying ideas of tolerance, democracy, and human rights that make free historical inquiry possible.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1998) p. 104