One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

S. I. Hayakawa

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Thomas Carlyle

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Allan Bloom

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Robert Casey

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Liev Schreiber

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Yiddish Proverb

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Steven Wright

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde