It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEINThe first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
More Ben Stein Quotes
-
-
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN -
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEIN -
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
BEN STEIN -
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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 -
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
BEN STEIN -
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN -
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN -
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
BEN STEIN -
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
BEN STEIN -
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEIN -
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
BEN STEIN -
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
BEN STEIN -
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
BEN STEIN -
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.
BEN STEIN








