Max Nordau Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

[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.