"The first thing to say about politics is……" — Richard John Neuhaus
"The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing."
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Richard John Neuhaus
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25 Quotes by Richard John Neuhaus
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner…
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In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have…
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If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
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Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is…
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One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
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Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
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My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I…
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Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates…
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate…
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Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a…
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Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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