Nat Hentoff Quotes

#1. I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

Nat Hentoff

#2. How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Amanda Hocking

#3. The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

Nat Hentoff

#4. Art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Sacredness inspires respect.

Toba Beta

#6. My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

Nat Hentoff

#7. The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Carine Roitfeld

#8. In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched.

Nat Hentoff

#9. Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

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#10. Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them ... [and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

Nat Hentoff

#11. Oh, Bassanio is so handsome." "As is his friend." "Do you fancy him?" "Do you jest? I was lucky not to be sliding on the slippery floor next to you." "That is not why I slipped.

Christopher Moore

#12. I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

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#13. There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred..

Nat Hentoff

#14. They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.

Saskia Walker

#15. It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

Cindy Jacobs

#16. I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

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#18. Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

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#19. My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Bubba Watson

#20. I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Allison Mack

#21. I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

George R R Martin

#22. Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

Nat Hentoff

#23. It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.

Sidney Crosby

#24. Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there's something wrong.

Nat Hentoff