Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

A State is not morally free to allow anarchy and license ... even if the majority should so desire.

The judges must be many, for, if few, they will always follow the behests of the few.

Citizenship is basic to all other claims which individuals make on the state, or the state makes upon them.

Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

Public sentiment should be respected.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

I don't care much about society.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.