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 STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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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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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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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.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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