Top 45 Stephen L. Carter Quotes
#1. Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
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#3. To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
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#4. Love is an activity, not a feeling ... True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.
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#5. He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
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#6. The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.
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#8. Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
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#10. We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.
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#11. True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.
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#12. Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.
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#14. So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
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#15. This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.
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#16. Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.
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#18. We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
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#19. We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.
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#20. In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.
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#21. He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
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#22. This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.
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#23. Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.
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#24. He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
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#25. The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
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#26. He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
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#27. She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.
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#28. Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
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#30. The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
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#31. In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
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#32. The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
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#33. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
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#34. Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
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#36. There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
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#38. One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.
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#39. I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same.
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#40. Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
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#41. Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
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#42. Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
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#44. In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
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#45. People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
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