P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
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  • Given

• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• All mankind love a lover.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Mankind
  • Lover

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Expansion

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
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• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Service
  • Mankind
  • Serve

• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Complexity
  • Decay
  • Expansion

• I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Proud

• I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Great
  • Hate

• I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Levels

• Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Dark

• You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

  

  Donald Driver
  • God
  • Game
  • Green

• I want nothing to do with privilege.

  

  James Gandolfini

• Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • War
  • Control
  • Jesus

• Everybody has a purpose.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Purpose

• When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Like

• Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mankind
  • Expansion
  • Treason