Michael Novak Quotes

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• Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.
• It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union…
• There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.…
• To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
• Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
• Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
• Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
• I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try…
• Sports is, somehow, a religion.
• Granted that I must die, how shall I live?
• Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
• Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
• Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred,…
• You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad…
• Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or…
• To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
• Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the…
• To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic…

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