When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
BEN STEINI don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
More Ben Stein Quotes
-
-
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
BEN STEIN -
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN -
My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
BEN STEIN -
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
BEN STEIN -
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
BEN STEIN -
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
BEN STEIN -
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEIN -
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
BEN STEIN -
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
BEN STEIN -
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEIN -
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
BEN STEIN -
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
BEN STEIN -
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
BEN STEIN -
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN -
It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
BEN STEIN