Stephen L. Carter Quotes
Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.
To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.