Kenneth Minogue Quotes

#1. Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.

Kenneth Minogue

#2. In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration.

Kenneth Minogue

#3. What is merely desired has no intellectual force, whereas what is desirable moves the argument on to an objective plane beyond desire.

Kenneth Minogue

#4. Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Freedom must mean that institutions have the autonomy to determine their own practices and admirations within the law. Otherwise, we confront the totalitarian demand that everyone should think the same thing and participate in the same admirations.

Kenneth Minogue

#6. The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity.

Kenneth Minogue

#7. People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.'

Stephanie Klein

#8. Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Kenneth Minogue

#9. I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

Sirio Maccioni

#10. There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

Tracy Morgan

#11. Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior's love.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#12. Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Kenneth Minogue

#13. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.

Kenneth Minogue

#14. Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Walter De Maria

#15. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

Kenneth Minogue

#16. Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i haven't even started yet.

Marianne Williamson

#17. For a while, he'd let himself forget what it was like to be around her. It was peace. It was war. It was excitement. It was contentment. It was exhilaration. It was soothing. It was heat. It was calm. It was everything.

Samantha Young

#18. The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society.

Kenneth Minogue

#19. It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.

Kenneth Minogue

#20. However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy.

Kenneth Minogue

#21. You can't move forward until you look back.

Cornel West

#22. Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

Patti Smith

#24. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

Dave Barry