Michael Novak Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.”

“If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.”

“Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.”

“Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.”

“Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

“The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.”

“Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.”

“Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.”