Haniel Long
Author
1888-03-09
Quotes by Haniel Long
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
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