Quotes by Andrew Sullivan

About Andrew Sullivan:

Andrew Michael Sullivan is a British-born author, editor and blogger, who has long resided in the United States and has since become a naturalized citizen. A former editor of The New Republic and the author or editor of six books, Sullivan is an influential blogger and commentator. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in 2000. He eventually moved the blog to various publishing platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast and finally an independent subscription based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015.
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

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I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

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I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else ...

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No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

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It is a Bush administration official on the moment when torture breaks a victim: The job of the interrogator is to safely help the terrorist do his duty to Allah, so he then feels liberated to speak freely. From Neil Gaiman's account of a torturer in...

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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, ...

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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has...

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Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

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If you think you’ll find intellectual stimulation, you’re thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I’ve never been more bored by casual chat.

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Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful i...

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Sullivan
  • DescriptionJournalist, writer, blogger
  • BornAugust 10, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Editor-in-chief; Blogger