Michael Kenny > Quotes

“An important ethical function of identity politics, in this context, is to highlight that obstacles to the self-development of individuals, and to the formation and exercise of their agency, emerge in complex cultural and psychic forms, as well as through more familiar kinds of socio-economic inequality.”
― Michael Kenny, The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference

“In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.”
― Michael Kenny, The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference

“The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.”
― Michael Kenny, The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference

“When we make the world a better place, the world makes us better people.”
― Michael Kenny, THE MONEY MENTALITY: PERSONAL FINANCE FOR TEENS: REAL-WORLD LESSONS ON FINANCIAL LITERACY, BUDGETING, INVESTING, AND SIDE HUSTLING

“The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed ‘other’. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly).”
― Michael Kenny, The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference

“Make money with your mind, not your time.”
― Michael Kenny, THE MONEY MENTALITY: PERSONAL FINANCE FOR TEENS: REAL-WORLD LESSONS ON FINANCIAL LITERACY, BUDGETING, INVESTING, AND SIDE HUSTLING