E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

The core of Animal House was about prejudice, about equality, and about inclusion/exclusion. It was about a group of people who were together and anything went. Anybody who wanted in could get it in. Then there was that other group that nobody could get in, unless they were white, and just alike. It was very representative of the culture in the '60s, '50s, and '40s in America.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.