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
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • 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
  • Expansion

• 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

• Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Believe
  • Financial

• As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Feelings
  • Interests

• I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?" Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Giving

• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Soul
  • Ocean
  • Balances

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

  

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