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

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

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. – Mary McCarthy

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. – Mary McCarthy

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In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. – E. J. Hobsbawm

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As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. – Harper Lee

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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

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

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