All Dan Savage Quotes
- The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. Bible
- The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why… Bullied
- The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality… Alone
- I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or… Boyfriend
- It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it… Doe
- Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in… Day
- My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob.… Came
- Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it… Argument
- Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of… Ask
- The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned… Actually Turned
- the truth is often a mixed message Inspirational
- The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. Capital
- every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't Every Relationship
- Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high. Addiction
- I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism Agnostic
- Relationships are monuments build on lies Build
- ...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want… Gay
- Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. America
- One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay… All
- the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. Bible
- When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could… Better
- Straight people are everywhere! Everywhere
- If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done. Homosexuality
- There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems. Less
- I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which… Advice