Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes & Sayings

“I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.”

“Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.”

“I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.”

“Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.”

“News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.”

“All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.”

“Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.”

“The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.”