Michael Kinsley Quotes

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Die
  • Craft

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Suffering
  • Medicine

• I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Time
  • Paper
  • Starting

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing

• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  

  Pietro Mascagni
  • Dangerous
  • Narcotics
  • Modern Music

• A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Free
  • Acting
  • Affairs

• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Judgment
  • Satisfied
  • Reformers

• A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reality
  • Memories
  • Summer

• Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Clarity
  • Old Age
  • Profundity

• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Positive
  • Teacher
  • Motivational

• Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes: whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Purpose
  • Results

• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Perfect
  • Virtue

• The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • People
  • Attention
  • Liberty

• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Memorable

• If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

  

  Michael Kinsley
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