10 Quotes by Nat Hentoff

We are talking about preventing our students from reading Huckleberry Finn! And why? Because it offends some people. Show me a book that offends no one, and i will show you a book that no one, in the whole history of the world, has ever willingly read.

Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there's something wrong.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.

Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you’re fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there’s something wrong.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.