"Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right……" — Susan Jacoby
"Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck."
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Susan Jacoby
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13 Quotes by Susan Jacoby
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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy…
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of…
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