Haniel Long

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

— Haniel Long

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.…

— Haniel Long

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand…

— Haniel Long

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

— Haniel Long

“The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.…

— Haniel Long

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or…

— Haniel Long

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has…

— Haniel Long

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without…

— Haniel Long

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for…

— Haniel Long

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening…

— Haniel Long

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every…

— Haniel Long

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come…

— Haniel Long

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does…

— Haniel Long

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free…

— Haniel Long

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

— Haniel Long

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not…

— Haniel Long

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change…

— Haniel Long

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It…

— Haniel Long

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of…

— Haniel Long

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever…

— Haniel Long

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of…

— Haniel Long