Culture Quote by Andrew Sullivan

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is…

— Andrew Sullivan

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

— Andrew Sullivan

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

— Andrew Sullivan

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often…

— Andrew Sullivan

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

— Andrew Sullivan

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

— Andrew Sullivan

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

— Andrew Sullivan

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

— Andrew Sullivan

“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

— Andrew Sullivan

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass…

— Andrew Sullivan

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed…

— Andrew Sullivan

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being…

— Andrew Sullivan