Richard Hofstadter Quotes

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

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free...

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving o...

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

The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of c...

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...