Haniel Long Quotes

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• When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better,…
• All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life…
• And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be…
• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because…
• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark…
• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches…
• To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of…
• A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not…
• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and…
• I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought…
• When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary…
• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with…
• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to…
• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some…

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