Frases de William Pfaff

William Pfaff era periodista estadounidense.

✵ 29. diciembre 1928 – 30. abril 2015
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William Pfaff: Frases en inglés

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

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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.”

William Pfaff

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

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