Frases de William Pfaff

William Pfaff era periodista estadounidense.

✵ 29. diciembre 1928 – 30. abril 2015
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“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

Fuente: 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.”

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

“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.”

Fuente: 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.”

Fuente: 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.”

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

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

Fuente: 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.”

Fuente: 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

Fuente: 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.”

Fuente: 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.”

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

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