Norman Mailer Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Home, Grace

• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Childhood, Grace

• When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

  Norman Mailer

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  1991 In The Guardian, 5 Oct.

• There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Two, Brave

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays”, p.195, Random House

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