Thinking Quotes by Nat Hentoff

[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that…

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In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering…

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I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense…

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[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into…

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[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]…

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I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well,…

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I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He…

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I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

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When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress…

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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the…

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I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought…

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The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner…

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I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

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I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it…

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

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I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They…

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A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

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I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of…

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The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when…

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I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not…

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