Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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People felt good even though they didn't really know much about Barack Obama and may have had some doubts.
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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
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A.J.Muste died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.
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William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.
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Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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My father was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.
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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.
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Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
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Søren Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
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A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.