"Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and……" — Richard John Neuhaus

"Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery."

— Richard John Neuhaus

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25 Quotes by Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner…
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have…
If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is…
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I…
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates…
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate…
The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a…
Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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