What did Michael Kinsley mean by: If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. Michael Kinsley Copy
Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Democracy, Humility, Politics, 0 Michael Kinsley
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Perception, Politics, Truth, 0 Michael Kinsley
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Anticipation, Conservatism, Liberalism, 0 Michael Kinsley
I have a saying: the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, the scandal is what’s legal. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Ethics, Legality, Scandal, 0 Michael Kinsley
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Mistakes, Politics, Truth, 0 Michael Kinsley
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Kinsley, Deception, Journalism, Truth, 0 Michael Kinsley
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
