Quote by Mary McCarthy
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, a

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy

Other quotes by Mary McCarthy

You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

Category:
work
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Racism
category

When it is not on the side of civil rights, then the law is not right, it is white. – Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

Category:
Racism

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin

Category:
Racism

Racism? But isnt it only a form of misanthropy? – Joseph Brodsky

Category:
Racism

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War. – W. E. B. Du Bois

Category:
Racism

Random Quotes

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. – Christopher Meloni

Category:
dad

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome. – Isaac Asimov

Category:
Death

The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap. – Author Unknown

Category:
Grandparents

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. – Charles de Gaulle

Category:
War