Jonathan Rauch Quotes

#1. Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

Jonathan Rauch

#2. Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Jonathan Rauch

#3. I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

Skylar Grey

#4. In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

Jonathan Rauch

#5. Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Jonathan Rauch

#6. In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

Caleb Crain

#7. I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

Jonathan Rauch

#8. Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

Jonathan Rauch

#9. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

Jonathan Rauch

#10. Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

L. Ron Hubbard

#11. After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

Jonathan Rauch

#12. And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.

Willem De Kooning

#13. In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

Jonathan Rauch

#14. I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

Rudolf Nureyev

#15. A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

Jonathan Rauch

#16. Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Nicolas Chamfort

#17. The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

Jonathan Rauch