Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest. — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants. — David Brooks Change Copy Share Image
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them. — David Brooks Fading Copy Share Image
On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard. — David Brooks Agree Copy Share Image
“Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.” — David Brooks Close friends Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket. — David Brooks Attention Copy Share Image
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks Cinema Copy Share Image
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. — David Brooks Belief Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking… — David Brooks Aurora Copy Share Image
The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to… — David Brooks Circumstances Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated… — David Brooks Brilliant Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — David Brooks Government Copy Share Image
“If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in… — David Brooks Values Copy Share Image
Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could… — David Brooks Barbaric Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to… — David Brooks About yourself Copy Share Image
This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the… — David Brooks Aliens Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Adviser Copy Share Image
“Western thought has emphasized individual action, permanent character traits, formal logic, and clearly delineated categories. For an even longer period, Asian thought… — David Brooks Asian Copy Share Image
Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No,… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so… — David Brooks Causes Copy Share Image
“In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“This starchy formality is not in vogue today. We carry ourselves in ways that are more natural and relaxed. We worry about… — David Brooks Courage Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Childhood Copy Share Image
“Julia's sexual tastes were more influenced by culture than Rob's. Men want to do the same sexual acts regardless of education levels,… — David Brooks Educated women Copy Share Image
“Why, over the past two decades, have we seen this epidemic of loneliness and meanness, this breakdown in the social fabric? We… — David Brooks Caring Copy Share Image
“Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes… — David Brooks Discipleship Copy Share Image
“Adults should want two things, he said, and these were the two things he wanted from his own life: First, he wanted… — David Brooks Failure Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Age Copy Share Image
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