Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“The choice to remain faithful to the drive to question (the fertile source of the experience of nothingness) brings with it an obscure joy. For to be faithful to that drive...is to be constantly expanding one's horizon, constantly losing one's life, and constantly regaining it. It is to be as alert to other persons, to situations, and to events as… — Michael Novak Copy Share
What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous attacks from within, from those who undermine the virtues of our people, doing in advance the work of the Father of Lies. “There is no such thing as truth,” they teach even the little ones. “Truth is bondage.… — Michael Novak Copy Share
Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately,… — Michael Novak Copy Share
