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Such Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- 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,…
- Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way…
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- 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…
- Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his…
- The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the…
- There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"…
- Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
- People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,…
- The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to…
- There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the…
More Such Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough