Bruce Bawer Quotes

#1. Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

George Ayittey

#2. We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

George Soros

#3. Apparently, lesbians and gay men who have no desire "to become queer" have failed at a task that is obligatory for them, whether or not they are aware of it. Halperin, like Foucault, in short, is yet another busybody who has an agenda for other people's lives.

Bruce Bawer

#4. Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.)

Bruce Bawer

#5. Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?

Bruce Bawer

#6. Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

#7. Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

Lee Smolin

#8. Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

Bruce Bawer

#9. I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

John Lennon

#10. Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

Bruce Bawer

#11. I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

Brant Daugherty