Michael Kinsley Quotes

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

Michael Kinsley

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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

• Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Character

• Love comes with responsibility. Whether you want to admit it or not, you’re responsible for him. It’s your name he toasts to every time he gulps down a mouthful of whiskey, and trust me, he does that very often. It’s your name he screams out for in his sleep.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Love
  • Responsible
  • Relations

• Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Trouble

• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Idiots
  • Madmen
  • Propositions

• Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Imagine
  • Marry
  • Fancy

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

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Virtue
  • Hypocrisy
  • Tribute