#not

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal? ↗

— Ben Stein

#god #steal #tell #truth #why

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#because #cocktail #everybody #i #mark

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is. ↗

— Ben Stein

#cannot #table #where #win #you

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dust #fools #god #hit #i

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. ↗

— Ben Stein

#animal #basic #being #breathing #eating

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. ↗

— Ben Stein

#think #you

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it. ↗

— Ben Stein

#beautiful #cannot #get #glorious #great

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dangerous #everything #frightening #how #nothing