Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
Sydney J. HarrisWhen you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. HarrisIntolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. HarrisThose obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. HarrisDemocracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. HarrisNorbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
Sydney J. Harris