Andrew Sullivan Quotes

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• To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Usa, Political, President

  "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sports, Writing, Alive

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• In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Talking, Skills, Academia

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• Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Men, Like You, Homosexuality

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• A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Mind, Wonderful, Wonderful Things

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• If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Culture, Ifs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Knowing, Important, Important Things

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• How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Political, Religion, Ideology

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• True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Believe, Humility

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• Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Stuff, Blogging, Fool

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Generations, Born

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Historical, Enemy, Gains

  "Bush, McCain, Torture". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. July 02, 2008.

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• When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

  Andrew Sullivan

  Mother, Eight, Said

  "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Believe, Conflict

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Cnn, Watches, News

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• I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Adventure, Thinking, Welfare Programs

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• For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Romantic Love, Space

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Errors, Ifs

  "Banned Books Week". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Eye, Politics, Conversation

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• The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Religious, Order, Political

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

  "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rights, Zimbabwe, Groups

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• Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Government, Views

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• Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Unhappiness, Ifs

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