Top 44 Kat Timpf Quotes

To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what’s not terrible? Freedom.

There is value in education, but, as we do with anything else, we should start being careful to weigh that value with the price tag that’s attached to it.

See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

Don’t like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn’t always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it – and, in fact, I’d say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.

Now, to anyone with even half a brain, a newspaper apologizing because a reporter did some reporting makes about as much sense as a doctor apologizing because he gave someone a diagnosis.

Let me be clear: It’s not that I’m not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it’s that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.

Personally, I chose my own undergraduate institution in large part because the scholarship options made it affordable for me to attend. Make no mistake: The financial feasibility of each school’s cost was a major part of making my decision, as it was for almost everyone I knew.

See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn’t just unfair to those people and those who love them. It is, but it’s also unfair to the people who pay to keep them there: the taxpayers. Let me be clear: Locking someone up is not free.

One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be getting lost.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face – sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.

Let’s all be honest here for a second, okay – bacon? Not even that good. Now, I’m not saying that it’s bad. I like bacon-wrapped dates, and I’ve also been known to enjoy a BLT a couple of times a year. What I’m saying is, bacon is fine, but it is objectively not so good that we need bacon-scented sunscreen.

For years, fiscally conservative advocacy groups were giving then-Republican representative Justin Amash awards, praise, and donations. Now that he’s an independent, however, many of those same groups are snubbing him entirely.

The United States of America is supposed to be a free country, and its law enforcement is supposed to exist to protect and serve its citizens.

It’s always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion – if not for compassion’s sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they’ll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.

College is supposed to be a place that prepares its students for the real world. That’s the entire purpose of attending! Learning how to be an engaged citizen is something that should be encouraged in this kind of environment, not restricted.

It’s true: Whenever I see a government rule that could clearly be used to punish people for doing innocuous things, it is never enough for some government official to just assure me that it won’t be used that way. Those assurances, after all, aren’t binding; they’re lip service.

The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm – not with creating it by levying penalties for ‘offenses’ that present no real risk to anyone.

It’s true: What one person might consider ‘hate speech,’ another might consider to be harmless, or even funny.

Football is, honestly, so objectively bad that I have always been convinced that the only reason it is so ‘popular’ is some kind of mass conspiracy. Everyone who ‘likes’ it is just pretending to like it because they see other people ‘liking’ it, and now we are all forced to endure it.

Although I certainly do love animals, I have to admit that I also love eating them. (Particularly cows. And chickens. And the occasional lamb).

There’s people on the left who refuse to consider that anybody but the government can solve any of their problems.

I am, quite clearly, no fan of PETA or its way of thinking – but that doesn’t mean that I want the group to be silenced. Instead, I have simply done what we all are supposed to have the right to do in this country: to use my own speech to counter what I disagreed with, rather than to move to silence it.

Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own ‘team’ or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

It’s true: I can’t think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.

My first job ever real job in the field was as an airborne traffic reporter and producer in Los Angeles, but I was laid off pretty quickly – which was totally fair, because I’m terrible with directions, and that’s kind of the whole job.

The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal responsibility, the job of the government (read: completely uninvolved taxpayers) to pay for someone else’s mistake.

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be ‘offensive’ with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection.

See, as a libertarian, I am actually far more liberal on the issue of immigration than many people might expect.

The truth is, every situation is different and has its own unique set of circumstances. That is reality, plain and simple.

Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented by some idiotic, anti-free-speech student or professor, people will ask me why I wasted my time writing about it.

Is burning an American flag a disgusting, reprehensible act? Yes, it absolutely is, and I would tell that to the face of absolutely anyone who has done so.

I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to read I mentioned to my mom that certain words I was learning tasted certain ways, thinking everyone was like that, and didn’t understand why she didn’t get what I was saying.

No one should ever feel compelled to replace the development of and adherence to his or her own set of personal values and beliefs with an adherence to some partisan label.

The truth of the matter is, ‘uncomfortable’ does not equal ‘unsafe,’ and ‘disagreement’ does not equal ‘danger.’

Hillary Clinton had the backing of the entire DNC during her 2016 run, and yet, after she lost, all she could do was whine incessantly about how many people had wronged her throughout the process and made it so unfair.

Kids only have a certain number of years to be kids, and the last thing we should be doing is incarcerating them for wanting to make that short-lived magic last.

Fall means that all of the Joy of Summer is officially over, and all of those hack fall activities that people seem to pretend to enjoy to make themselves feel better begin.

I know it can be difficult to try and achieve your dreams when you don’t have the same advantages as some other people may have, but this is a country full of opportunity where amazing things can happen, if you are willing to hustle and be smart about it.

I’m sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it’s sold out.

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It’s also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.