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Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

All the isms are wasms – except one, the most powerful ism of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Lukacs

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

John Lukacs

Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

John Lukacs

Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

John Lukacs

John Lukacs

John Lukacs

Born: January 31, 1924

Died: May 6, 2019 (aged 95)

Bio: John Adalbert Lukacs was a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic.

Known for:

Five days in London, May 1940 (1999)
The Duel (1990)
The Hitler of history (1997)
Budapest 1900 (1988)
Democracy and Populism (2005)

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