If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEINGreed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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 a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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I 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.
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