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.
BEN STEINMy feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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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.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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 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?
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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No one will do it for you.
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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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