Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
Quotes to Explore
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
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I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.
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It's important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it's important and good to educate your friends via social media about what's happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.
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If you just say nothing, there is no way they can make you talk.
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I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.
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Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.
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It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
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I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.
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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
