Books Quote by Cynthia Ozick

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may…

— Dorothy Allison

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

— Keith Gessen

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…

— Thomas Paine

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world…

— Bill Ayers

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined…

— Immanuel Kant

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the…

— Roberto Unger

“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described…

— James V. Schall

“Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. "The Baglioni are true believers," he said. "They believe in paradise. Such…

— Mario Puzo

“We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to…

— Joe Lieberman