Philip Wylie

Quotes

• “What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!”
• “There is no advance without strife.”
• “The waiters all are rude. The bellboys scream and yell. The swill is better than the food. Goddamn the Mills Hotel.”
• “But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”
• “Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”
• “Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.”

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