All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. Bad
- Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And… All
- If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many… Agenda
- Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… Art
- Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow… Constituency
- There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… British
- When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. Away Childish
- Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it… Acknowledged
- Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead… Automobile
- I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists… Absolved
- Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no… Believed
- Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. Jail
- Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. Anyone
- The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking… Eliminated
- The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit Branches
- There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless… Boring
- I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words, Funny
- The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance… Broadcast
- Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity. Burdensome
- They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish… All
- The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. Australian
- Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women. Arousal
- Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. Bachelor
- Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. Biologically
- I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really… Ask