Fracture Quotes

“No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

“The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

“Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

“Nietzsche's subtle, poetic, and entirely unsystemic attacks on academic style and thinking were predestined to be quoted out of context, and his pithy and often sarcastic observations could be put in the service of a wider assault on rationality itself.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938