It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
BEN STEINI don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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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.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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