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One Quotes by David Novak
- The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
- Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
- A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.
- In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually…
- All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or…
- One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
- The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
- Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative…
- Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third…
- For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which…
- The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder…
- The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle