William Pfaff quotes
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“The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3, 1989.
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“Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, 1989.
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“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 155, 1989.
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“It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 147, 1989.
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“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 146, 1989.
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“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”
-- William PfaffSource : "arbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63, 1989.
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“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.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52, 1989.
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“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.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 31, 1989.
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“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28, 1989.
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“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.
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“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.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23, 1989.
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“For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 21, 1989.
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“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11, 1989.
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“The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.”
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 138., 1989.
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