Steve Allen quotes
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“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1987). “How to Make a Speech”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“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.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“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.”
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“Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.”
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“Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”
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“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.”
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“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”
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“Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”
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“Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.”
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“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“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.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub
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“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.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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“If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.”
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“The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1996). “But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind”
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“Everybody is somewhere.”
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“Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.”
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“I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”
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“There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.”
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“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.”
-- Steve AllenSource : First broadcast of "The Tonight Show", 1953.
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“One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books
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“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.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”
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“...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.”
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”
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