William Pfaff Quotes

William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. December 1928 – 30. April 2015
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Famous William Pfaff Quotes

“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63.

“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 155.

“The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 138.

“Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23.

William Pfaff Quotes

“But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52.

“The frontier that remains is is the interior one, the most forbidding and mysterious frontier.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 7, The Possibility of Extravagant Waste, p. 189.

“Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 6, Japan, China and the Making of nations, p. 164.

“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 31

“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 146.

“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11.

“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28.

“A great nation's foreign policy involves power, money, trade, oil and arms, but it proeeds from ideas.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 149.

“One cannot say that it will never happen again, or that it cannot happen.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 4, The Soviet Union, p. 107.

“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27.

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