James Hal Cone Quotes

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

James Hal Cone

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Novels
  • Writes
  • Scholar

• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Done
  • Always
  • Better

• The economy is so bad, two Milwaukee men were arrested this week for trying to join ISIS. Did you hear their excuse, they said, 'Hey! Nobody else is hiring!' THAT'S how bad it is!

  

  Jay Leno
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Victory
  • Conscience

• Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

  

  Dougray Scott

• The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • History
  • Gospel
  • Preached

• The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Freedom
  • News
  • Gospel