Podhoretz Norman Quotes & Sayings

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture. — Norman Podhoretz

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

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe. — Son Lux

Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books. — Charlie Munger

Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, 'We'll get you through your children!' For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true. — Roger Kimball

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. — Garry Trudeau

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

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes. — Jake Gyllenhaal

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it". — Norman Podhoretz

When Scalia dissents, he pours gasoline on the majority, lights a match, and stomps on the ashes. — Irin Carmon

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things. — Jack Ma

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn't think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that's right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I'd seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn't go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis. — Joel Hodgson

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay ... but I'm not going to. — Katie Aselton

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself. — Obert Skye

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. — Franz Grillparzer

Like the medieval heretics that Norm Cohn wrote about in The Pursuit of the Millennium, the Beats cultivated an extreme narcissism that bordered on self-deification and that 'liberated them from all restraints' and allowed them to experience every impulse as a 'divine command'. What Norman Podhoretz observed of Ginsberg was also true of the Beats generally: they 'conjured up a world of complete freedom from the limits imposed by [bourgeois] responsibilities'. Podhoretz added, 'It was a world that promised endless erotic possibility together with the excitements of an expanded consciousness constantly open to new dimensions of being: more adventure, more sex, more intensity, more life'. Alas, the promise was illusory. Instead of an 'expanded consciousness', the Beats purchased madness, ruination, and, for many, an early death. Their attack on bourgeois responsibility led not to greater freedom but to greater chaos. The erotic paradise they envisioned turned out to be rife with misery. — Roger Kimball

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion. — Abhijit Naskar

[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

I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially. — Arnold Palmer

When people say 'marriage' to me ... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. — Lady Gaga