"Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in……" — David Novak

"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 sense; no one is truly autonomous."

— David Novak

55 Quotes by David Novak

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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization…
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common:…
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel…
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on… — Theodor Adorno
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that… — Dan Simmons
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain… — Ravi Zacharias
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is… — Pierre Duhem
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the… — Theda Skocpol
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our… — Eric Hoffer
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous,… — Unknown Author
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what… — Robert K. Greenleaf
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America… — Louis A. Johnson
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He… — B.F. Skinner

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