Max Nordau Quotes

#1. By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone ... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

Max Nordau

#2. I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

Chris Van Hollen

#3. The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

#4. Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child ...

Margaret Sanger

#5. [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Max Nordau

#6. It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Max Nordau

#7. reporting of matters that were far more important, not only to him but to others as well?"2 Matters, for example, such as the resurrection of Jesus, which Luke says was firmly established by "many convincing proofs" (Acts 1:3). Are you as intrigued as I was by what

Lee Strobel

#8. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles ... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law ... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

#9. We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Max Nordau

#11. My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams.

Truth Devour

#12. What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.

J.M. Coetzee

#13. The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Max Nordau

#14. Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.

Max Nordau

#15. Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Max Nordau

#16. We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.

Steven Harrison

#17. If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Robin S. Sharma