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Ideas Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- 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…
- Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like…
- Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.…
- The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about…
- America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon…
- Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle…
- The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
- The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for…
- Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign…
- Harvard is the home of American ideas.
- Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all…
- The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe