Quotes About Us

Demagoguery is about identity. It says that complicated policy issues can be reduced to a binary of us (good) versus them (bad). It says that good people recognize there is a bad situation, and bad people don't; therefore, to determine what policy agenda is the best, it says we should think entirely in terms of who is like us and who isn't.

The paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

that all there is is love. Pity us not. Los Angeles 29 June 1987

But for some of us who watched the shadows deepen all through that fall of 1936, there was no such thing as a foreign war.

The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can't build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we're doing, we're cutting down a forest that we can't rebuild.

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.

and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,