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Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination."

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic."

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.




Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well."

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.




Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising."

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege."

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive."

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.




Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb."

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die."

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche."

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him."

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do."

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.




Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption."

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical."

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one."

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury."

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: ""The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche."

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....



Richard Hofstadter Quotes: "They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property."

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.