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World Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
- With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse…
- If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is…
- There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for…
- I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction…
- To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
- One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It…
- In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
- Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,…
- The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of…
- A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps…
- Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything…
- .......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…
- If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
- I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the…
- There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence…
- One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach