10 great steve allen quotes
- If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
- Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
- Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
- If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
- There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.
- Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.
- Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
- One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
- This is The Tonight Show. I can’t tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.
- Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.
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