Quotes About Tuscon

#1. When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn

#2. This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Walter Kirn

#3. Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

#4. When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. [T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.

Walter Kirn

#6. Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

Angela Duckworth

#7. A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Horace

#8. To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

Amitav Ghosh

#9. American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning

Neil Patrick Harris

#10. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

Robert H. Schuller

#11. Move with the movers.

Johnny Hunt

#12. I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more.

George Harrison

#13. Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

Alexander Pope

#15. Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Walter Kirn

#16. Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn