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Other Quotes by Penn Jillette
- 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…
- 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…
- My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.
- When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very…
- I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
- There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
- When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
- Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make…
- America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from…
- 'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last…
- I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.…
- I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in…
- The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was…
- If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour