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Us Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,…
- Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
- The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.…
- It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali…
- So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.…
- Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
- Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
- The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out…
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller…
- The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like…
- It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
- I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
- I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us…
- Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
- My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're…
- The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often…
- Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
- 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"…
- Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle