Haniel LongWhen 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. … ▶375HumanityReading
Haniel LongFor 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… ▶312Love
Haniel LongTo 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 (1950). A letter to St. Augustine… ▶324HumanityPoliticsReading
Haniel LongThe 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 meetin… ▶292LifeTime
Haniel LongSo 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 … ▶293LoveReading
Haniel LongAll 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, reassembles in… ▶252HumanityLife
Haniel LongSurely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'221HumanityTime
Haniel LongA 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… ▶234Reading
Haniel LongWhen 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. 245HumanityReading
Haniel LongI 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 (19… ▶219DeathLifeReading
Haniel LongFree 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 … ▶2210HumanityLifePolitics
Haniel LongAnd who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?187Reading
Haniel LongWhen an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.188Life
Haniel LongI 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 read… ▶133ReadingTime
Haniel LongThe 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 … ▶1910HumanityLifeReading
