Lowest Distance

Famous quotes containing the words lowest and/or distance:

“You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one’s own.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)