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Andrew Sullivan Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“One of the great attractions of tribalism is that you don’t actually have to think very much. All you need to know on any given subject is which side you’re on.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?
Tagged: Tribalism
“The principle of preferring ten guilty people to go free rather than one innocent person to be found guilty was not so long ago a definition of Western civilization.”
— Andrew Sullivan, We All Live on Campus Now
Tagged: Tribunals, Liberal vs. Conservative Societies, Judgement Systems, Dealing with the Guily, Western Society
“When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan: It’s Time to Resist the Excesses of #MeToo
Tagged: Freedom of Speech, Journalists Suppressing Other Journalists, Journalism
“Marxism with a patina of liberalism on top is still Marxism — and it’s as hostile to the idea of a free society as white nationalism is”
— Andrew Sullivan, We All Live on Campus Now
Tagged: Marxism, Political Extremism
“Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?
Tagged: Tribalism, America, Founding Fathers, Us. Vs Them, American Experiment
“The ubiquitous temptations of virtual living create a mental climate that is still maddeningly hard to manage.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
Tagged: digital age, Always On Culture
“The whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan: We All Live on Campus Now
Tagged: Identity Politics, Groupthink, Individuality, Quote of the Moment
“The allure of opiates’ joys are filling a hole in the human heart and soul today as they have since the dawn of civilization.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.
Tagged: Opium, Heroin, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals
“Opiates are now the religion of the people.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.
Tagged: Opioid Epidemic, Heroin, Quote of the Moment
“If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.”
— Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
Tagged: Writing In The Digital Age, Identity Within The Internet
“Twitter is not a place to air diverse viewpoints; it is a desiccating swarm of like-mindedness, moving as a single mutating mass, shimmering with every minuscule ripple in the news cycle, destroying all perspective, undermining learning, destroying the very process of reading, and deeply corrosive of a liberal society. If you are in the middle of the online stream, as I was for a decade and a half, and you are intelligent and attempt to be conscientious and honest, the emotional toll will be crushing.”
— Andrew Sullivan, The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free Speech
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