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.
BEN STEINI always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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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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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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No one will do it for you.
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