The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say. Sydney J. Harris View this quote
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. Sydney J. Harris
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along. Sydney J. Harris
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. Sydney J. Harris
There is no such thing as an ‘atrocity’ in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself. Sydney J. Harris
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. Sydney J. Harris
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion. Sydney J. Harris
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’ Sydney J. Harris
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny? Sydney J. Harris
When a man’s position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that’s the opinion he will have. Sydney J. Harris
American journalist
September 14th, 1917 - December 8th, 1986
