Words matter. These are the best Michael J. Knowles Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn’t ‘brainwashing’ – it’s education.
My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.
No one actually cares about blackface.
A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.
All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.
As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.
Criminal justice reformers prattle on about ‘over-incarceration’ in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.
Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.
Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices.
All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.
Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.
Whether the origin of ‘A Course In Miracles’ is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred a cult of self-satisfaction for which Marianne Williamson has served as chief apostle.
According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more money and power.
President Trump’s critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.
Ronald Reagan was very successful.
Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don’t wind up in sanctuary states.
Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.
If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.
We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.
Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.
All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice – that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.
Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.
Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children’s chances at admission to college.
The purpose of language is to communicate. That’s the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.
A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.
There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren’t.
Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.
The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don’t elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.
Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.
Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You’re not Ronald Reagan. You can’t run as him; you can’t relive his career. You can’t just have somebody else’s career. You have to be you.
The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.
The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.
From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens.
The Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but it can’t have both.
Civil society begins with the family.
President Trump’s greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character.
When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.
No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.
President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way.
Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
People go into debt when they judge it beneficial to borrow money against their future earnings. Few can afford to buy a house outright, but many consider it worthwhile to take out a loan, which they will service and pay off over time, for the immediate privilege of living and investing in a house.
While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they’re going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.
Are companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter open technology platforms or publishers with curated content? For years, Big Tech giants have tried to have it both ways, exploiting special legal protections to enrich themselves while behaving like publishers without the liabilities.
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
In ‘Jesus Is King,’ Kanye is free.
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.
Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.
Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.
Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.
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.
Marriage is not for everyone.
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.
