Ben Stein Quotes
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America ... (She is) the light of the world ... A nation of heroes ... The real stars are wearing body armor on top of their battle dress uniforms in 130 degree heat and they do not have stunt doubles to come in for them when the going gets rough and the bullets and the shrapnel start flying. They are the real stars, fighting terrorism and trying to free a nation.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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No one will do it for you.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
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I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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