Quotes by Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

Jesus

Religious

Secular

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble – in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Expectations

Intellectual

Truth

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

Emotional

Heart

Women

Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values – whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

Hands

Ideas

Organization

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.

Feminist

Ideas

Motivation

For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing – confession – in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think – I think that it did help.

Catholic

Church

Thinking

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before, but it was not that common. And of course since it was a song that wasn’t written by Irving Berlin until the 20th century (laughter), none of the 19th century presidents said God Bless America at the end of speeches, either. I think that the symbolism which suggests that everybody is religious and that even presidents who believe in church and state feel obliged to do this.

Laughter

Religious

Song

I believe that whether one believes in God or not is – it’s very central to who I am.

Believe

I Believe

Who I Am

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn’t be able to vote and are inferior to whites.

Able

Believe

Falling In Love

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

Feels

Religious

Way

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Able

Adults

Aristocracy

Art

Atheist

Attractive

Believe

Catholic

Causes

Children

Choices

Church

Country

Development

Disappointment

Education

Emotional

Empires

Europe

Expectations

Falling In Love

Feels

Feminist

Germany

Goal

Government

Grieving

Groups

Hands

Heart

History

I Believe

Ideas

Intellectual

Intelligent

Interesting

Jesus

Kind

Lasts

Laughter

Leader

Long

Motivation

Organization

Past

People

Reading

Real

Regions

Religious

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Quotes by Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble – in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing – confession – in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think – I think that it did help.

I believe that whether one believes in God or not is – it’s very central to who I am.

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn’t be able to vote and are inferior to whites.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

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