Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by William Pfaff

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William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

American - Author | December 29, 1928 - April 30, 2015

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The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

William Pfaff

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

William Pfaff

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.

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Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

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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.

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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.

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The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

William Pfaff

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

William Pfaff

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.

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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.

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Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

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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 Pfaff

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.

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America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

William Pfaff

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by William Pfaff

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