Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Quotes

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Moral: It all depends.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs

I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.