Haniel Long Quotes

• Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society,
  each of us needs to understand himself and understand others,
  take care of others and be taken care of himself.

  Haniel Long

  Taken, Kwanzaa, Community

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Haniel Long

  Family, Loyalty, Our Love

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

  Haniel Long

  Spiritual, Brotherhood, Live For Today

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• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  Haniel Long

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

  Haniel Long

  Ignorance, Causes, Apathy

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• A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

  Haniel Long

  Gang Members, Desire, Energy

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  Haniel Long

  Self, People, Church

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Humanity, Loyal, Clue

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  Haniel Long

  Desert, Incentives, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Loyalty, Men, Humanity

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Age, Interest

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  Haniel Long

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Haniel Long (1968). “If he can make her so”

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• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Listening, Important

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  Haniel Long

  People, Vision, Valleys

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• In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.

  Haniel Long

  Dream, Taken, Secret

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• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  Haniel Long

  Drama, Friendly, Watches

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• And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

  Haniel Long

  Kingdoms, Starvation

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• I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

  Haniel Long

  Believe, Dying, New Life

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Speaks Out, Voice

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