Penn Jillette Quotes

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• I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the…
• The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
• If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
• People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing…
• This I believe: I believe there is no God.
• I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was…
• How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.
• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life…
• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that,…
• How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?
• The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people,
• The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
• I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
• If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.
• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I…
• You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And as for fiscal…
• My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.
• Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.
• Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.
• The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

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