Edmund White Quotes

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

I grew up in the States, but I go back to Brazil quite often, and a big part of me is very Brazilian, so there's a constant struggle between the two cultures within me. They're very different approaches to life.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

I don't think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.

In a gray area, you don't have to provide an answer. And I don't want to. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, well, here's the answer. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, this is how to be a Muslim.

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.