The Radical Will Quotes

“Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.”
― Randolph Bourne, The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

“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 Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918