A Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

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Sydney J. Harris
American - Journalist
September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E. L. Doctorow

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Laura Furman

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Paulo Coelho

Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Amy Adams

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Amy Adams

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Marcel Proust

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer

By the time it's considered socially acceptable to start screwing, most of us are sexually constipated, and this is often an incurable condition. I think young people should be able to have their first sexual love affair whenever they feel like it. In the case of most girls, this would be around 13 or 14; with most boys, around 15 or 16.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we're expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don't role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.

Amy Morin

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

Thomas Jefferson

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

Paul Goldberger

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