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Haniel Long
17 quotes
“Our forefathers were pioneers. So are we.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pittsburgh Memoranda (Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1935), prologue, p. 1
“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936)
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Malinche (Dona Marina) (1939)
“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?”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Malinche (Dona Marina) (1939)
“All poets and story-tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, re-assembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notes for 'A New Mythology' and 'Pittsburgh Memoranda' (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971), "To the Reader Who Reads Prefaces", p. 13
“Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Haniel Long (1888–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source