P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

• Communism doesn’t really starve or execute that many people. Mostly it just bores them to death.

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• There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

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• For reasons of high aesthetic principle, I do not write on a computer.

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• Sometimes it’s hard to remember that bourgeois property is the real revolutionary force these days. All over the world we’re bringing down dictatorships-or at least forcing them to go condo.

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  Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.

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• We had a choice between Democrats who couldn’t learn from the past and Republicans who couldn’t stop living in it.

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• One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

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• Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

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• The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

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• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

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  Tags in Joyful, Journalism

• If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his autobiography.

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• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

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• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a “learning experience.” Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a “learning experience.” It makes me feel less stupid.

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• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

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• The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

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• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.

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P. J. O'Rourke (107)

Birth:	14th November, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Politician, Satirist, Writer

About

P. J. O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.

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