15 Quotes & Sayings By Tj Kirk

T.J. Kirk is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Contract. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Rules of Attraction. Prior to her career as an author, Kirk worked as a union organizer and an international trade negotiator Read more

She was born in Virginia and has lived in New York City for over 20 years.

Muslim store clerks should sell alcohol and pork. Christian bakers...
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Muslim store clerks should sell alcohol and pork. Christian bakers should bake gay wedding cakes. Everyone should do their fucking job. T.J. Kirk
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And how can evil be the mere absence of good? Is genocide the absence of something, of what? Of kindness? Were there no kind Nazis? Of love? Were there no Maoist revolutionaries who loved their families? Evil is an act, we commit evil proactively, it doesn't simply emerge in the absence of good. When you don't put a dollar in the donation tin in the front of the convenience store it doesn't mean that an ax murderer was created. We human beings have one set of actions described as "good" and another set described as "evil. T.J. Kirk
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I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain. T.J. Kirk
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In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth. T.J. Kirk
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If your argument is based on a lie, you shouldn't make it. T.J. Kirk
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Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know. T.J. Kirk
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You are not special. You're just fucking not. You're a bland, boring motherfucker just like everybody else. You ever been to the mall and just looked in the eyes of the fellow travelers and seen how dull and lifeless their eyes are? Yours look like that too. You know why? 'Cause you're just as bland, you're just as fucking boring, there's nothing special about you. And trying to piggyback on the accomplishments of your race, or like, any fucking larger group really, is pathetic. You have to stand on individual merit and you just can't accept the fact that you suck. It's alright! I suck, Weber sucks, everyone sucks! We're all fucking shit, we suck dick, we're lame as fuck. And that's okay. That's fine. . T.J. Kirk
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And you know who's especially stupid? People who look at how unexceptional and bland and boring they are and say, "You know how I can remedy this? I will take solace in the accomplishments of my entire race. That way, I can draw attention away from the fact that I personally have not accomplished shit! T.J. Kirk
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Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. They can – and should – be used in tandem. Either alone is death by overdose. Balance. T.J. Kirk
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Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense. T.J. Kirk
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People who dismiss all capitalism or all socialism are opposite ends of the same kind of stupid. T.J. Kirk
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If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself. T.J. Kirk
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Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little. T.J. Kirk
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Two things don't need to be "equally bad" to point out that they're both bad. T.J. Kirk