Guillermo Jimenez

“True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her, — qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.”
― Anthony Trollope, Complete Works of Anthony Trollope

“How am I to tell you what he said? He talked nonsense about my beauty, as all the men do. If a woman were hump-backed, and had only one eye, they wouldn’t be ashamed to tell her she was a Venus.”
― Anthony Trollope, Complete Works of Anthony Trollope

“Our political opinions emanate from deep cultural and biological sources...This explains why we get so emotional about politics and why political compromise is generally impossible. When someone criticizes our politics, they attack our very being. Political debate is futile because it is based on the naive premise that we can be convinced by the logical arguments of our enemies to change our inner selves.”
― Guillermo Jimenez, Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality

“The conflict between left and right in modern republics is a sort of perpetual-motion mechanism and negative spiral at the same time. When we support political parties, it is regrettable more than just a matter of adopting certain political beliefs. We are also expected to agree that our party's beliefs are better than those held by the other party. Feelings of hostility and superiority are an inevitable byproduct of partisan competition. The media encourages representatives of both sides to vent their emotions, because this sells newspapers and boosts ratings. When we hear that other disagree viscerally with us, we tend to return the feeling of emotional dislike.”
― Guillermo Jimenez, Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality