Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Richard John Neuhaus

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• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • My Life

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Doing

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Driving
  • Hollywood
  • Helped

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• 革命不是請客吃飯，不是做文章，不是繪畫繡花，不能那樣雅致，那樣從容不迫，文質彬彬，那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動，是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。

  

  Mao Zedong

• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

  

  Vanity
  • Pain

• Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • War

• Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,Troop home to churchyards.

  

  Aurora
  • Home
  • Night
  • Clouds

• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • Future
  • Judge

• I think Beyonce always looks great.

  

  Lily James
  • Great

• Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore, go against them trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves. - Boudica

  

  Cassius Dio
  • Bravery
  • Superior
  • Neither

• Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Career

• It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Passionate
  • Actually
  • Thinks

• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Art
  • May
  • Today

• Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Progress
  • Slavery
  • Regression