43 Quotes by T.J. Kirk

No one accomplishes anything if they decide before they begin that the task is too difficult. I'd rather attempt the impossible and fail than consign myself to failure before even making the attempt.

I cannot be stopped unless I am dead. Nothing else can stop me. As long as no one has the balls to kill me, I will prevail. Each breath I draw, even if it's followed by a smoker's cough, is a victory. This world will beat me one day, but not today. Not until the day I die.

A clever person can tell them the truth in a way that they want to hear.

If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.

Two things don't need to be "equally bad" to point out that they're both bad.

People want freedom, but not for their neighbors. People want freedom, but they don't want its downsides.

So if someone who seeks or has power says, "Let's jump off the cliff!" your response should not be, "Let's not jump off the cliff," it should be, "No, let's climb the mountain and attain a greatness never hitherto seen in the annals of humanity history".

Do I want Christianity outlawed? No. Do I think humanity should turn away from it? Yes.

Okay, first of all, they don't "consider" Jefferson Davis racist, he was President of the Confederacy, his racism is not up for any sort of fucking debate. Despite the narrative of some Southern Revisionists, the Civil War was fought almost entirely on the issue of slavery. If you're the leader of the, "we think black people should be slaves" side of that war, then you're a racist — not "racist, question mark," not even "racist, period," but "racist, exclamation point" — racist!