Gwethalyn Graham Quotes

There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

What he was saying was of no importance in itself, it had all been said before so many times, repeated parrot-like but with an air of acute perception and originality by one person after another, in one country after another, all the way down through history. After all, even Hitler was unable to think up anything really new on the subject of the Jews; he merely said what everybody else had been saying, only of course he said it louder and oftener, and put it a bit more strongly.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ...

You cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively.

If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

There are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive.

There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.

I don't realize what something really means until it suddenly walks up and hits me between the eyes. It isn't enough to think, you have to feel [...]

You can't offer a series of vague generalizations referring to the supposed characteristics of approximately sixteen million people scattered over the earth's surface - that was the pre-war figure, of course - as a valid explanation of your attitude toward a given individual. It doesn't make sense.