Michael J. Knowles Quotes

Michael J. Knowles

Profession : Author

Birth : March 18, 1990

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

Michael J. Knowles

Air travel dehydrates people.

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Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

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Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

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Media elites, particularly those on the Left, love to hate the pumpkin spice latte.

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The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is America's most conservative drink.

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While liberal, coastal white girls may constitute the most conspicuous purveyors of pumpkin spice, the flavor's cultural connotations and the strong opinions they elicit reveal the drink's profound conservatism.

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In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse disgust in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

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No one actually cares about blackface.

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All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.

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In 'Jesus Is King,' Kanye is free.

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Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

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For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.

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The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

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The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.

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Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

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Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

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In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

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Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.

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For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win.

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