Just as communism always begins with an appeal to “humanity” and equality” and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to “nationalism” and “individualism,” and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.

— Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris Quotes

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

— Sydney J. Harris

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

— Sydney J. Harris

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

— Sydney J. Harris

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

— Sydney J. Harris

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

— Sydney J. Harris

Filth is always a sign of weakness – in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

— Sydney J. Harris

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

— Sydney J. Harris

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

— 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

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

— Sydney J. Harris

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

— Sydney J. Harris

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

— Sydney J. Harris

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

— Sydney J. Harris

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. “I got it from my good judgment,” he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? “I got it from my bad judgment.”

— Sydney J. Harris

When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.

— Sydney J. Harris

Firsts

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

— 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

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

— Sydney J. Harris

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

— Sydney J. Harris

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

— Sydney J. Harris

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