Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEINIsrael is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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No one will do it for you.
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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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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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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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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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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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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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