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Paul Bede Johnson CBE ist ein britischer Journalist, Historiker und Autor. Er hat über 40 Bücher geschrieben und war Mitarbeiter und später Chefredakteur des New Statesman. 2006 erhielt er die Presidential Medal of Freedom. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. November 1928
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“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all this seeming moral authority of parliaments and congresses and courts of justice! The destructive capacity of an individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and the destructive capacity necessarily expands too. Collective righteousness is far more ungovernable than any individual pursuit of revenge. That was a point well understood by Woodrow Wilson, who warned: 'Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.”

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Paul Johnson

Modern Times (1983).

“It was part of Rousseau’s vanity that he believed himself incapable of base emotions. ‘I feel too superior to hate.’ ‘I love myself too much to hate anybody.”

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Paul Johnson

Intellectuals (1988).

“A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.”

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Paul Johnson

Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s (1983).

“This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.”

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Paul Johnson buch A History of the American People

A History of the American People (1997).

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