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Charles Frankel Quotes

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Charles Frankel
Worry, Anxiety, Intellectual
CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Charles Frankel
Government, Democracy, Committees

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

Charles Frankel
Government, Whatever Happens, Happened
Charles Frankel (1969). “High on Foggy Bottom: an outsider's inside view of the Government”

The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

Charles Frankel
Children, Independent, Ideas

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