“When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.”
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p72.
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“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Context: Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
“There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.”
Interview with Brian Lamb at Booknotes (11 August 2002) http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1688.
2002
Martin Landau: ‘Doubt Is Important’, Washington Times (December 25, 2016)