A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
![“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 to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f8/nat-hentoff-1615_call-me_i-ve-i-call-cardinal-john-o-connor-from_2152132.jpg)
![“[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7cc/nat-hentoff-1615_able_s-ren-kierkegaard-said-it-for-me-a-long_1177231.jpg)
![“At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, 'Over my dead body will you replace…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/556/nat-hentoff-1615_body_at-the-time-there-was-a-hospital-strike_402085.jpg)
![“[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ab/nat-hentoff-1615_editors_margot-hentoff-was-an-editor-there-for-a_2819688.jpg)
![“[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a81/nat-hentoff-1615_back-when_cardinal-john-o-connor-had-my-wife-margo_2956043.jpg)
![“[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/060/nat-hentoff-1615_argument_margot-hentoff-thinks-first-of-all-she-t_42891.jpg)
![“My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b15/nat-hentoff-1615_chronology_my-chronology-is-terrible-work-with-will_68342.jpg)
![“We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b48/nat-hentoff-1615_abortion_we-disagree-heavily-on-abortion-with-mar_70628.jpg)
![“[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18d/nat-hentoff-1615_coordinator_my-wife-margot-was-the-i-guess-the-coord_104123.jpg)
![“[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c49/nat-hentoff-1615_believe_a-j-muste-was-he-i-don-t-know-what-he-fi_209477.jpg)