Norman Podhoretz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
-- Norman Podhoretz

#Children #Creativity #Carpe Diem
The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
-- Norman Podhoretz

#Dirty #Political #Secret
"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".
-- Norman Podhoretz

#War #Victory #World
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.
-- Norman Podhoretz

#Writing #Israel #Roles
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.
-- Norman Podhoretz

#America #World #Belief
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
-- Norman Podhoretz

#Class #Would Be #Culture

We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
We are the change we have been waiting for.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Norman Podhoretz famous quotes

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