Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Michael J. Knowles - Page 2

No one actually cares about blackface.

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

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

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

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

Republicans stalled Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court because they could, and 136 years of American history recommended it as politically advantageous.

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.

Marriage is not for everyone.

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

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.

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

In 'Jesus Is King,' Kanye is free.

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 materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried.

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

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

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.

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.

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.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

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

Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.

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

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.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

The Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but it can't have both.

For Christians, Advent reminds us why we need Christmas in the first place. It relies not only the grace of God but also the assent of Mary to the divine will.

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

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.

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

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

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.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Conservative merchandise tends to aim at a point from a place of humor and exuberance, from Trumpy Bear to the 'Make American Great Again' hats to my own bestselling blank book 'Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide.'