"When you put a tiny and despised minority……" — Andrew Sullivan
"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
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55 Quotes by Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan has 55 quotes on this site.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet…
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones…
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is…
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Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals…
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Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the…
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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because…
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Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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More Despised Quotes
This quote is filed under Despised Quotes,
one of 206 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a…
— Fanny Fern
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
— John Brown
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Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is…
— Teresa of Avila
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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