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Letter "P" » P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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«You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Generosity,
Giving,
Money,
People,
Poverty,
Sharing
«The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, date, date rape, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, elite, feature, Liberals, loudly, membership, promote, rape, sanctimoniousness, Selecting, terrific, testifies, testify, testifying
«If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addict, adulterer, celebrity, drug addict, drug addicts
«The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Behavior,
Drinking,
New Year
| Keywords:
culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, drunkenness, Eve, holiday, holiday season
«Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
corporal, corporal punishment, re-introduce, reintroduce
«Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Angels
| Keywords:
band, Band of, Gates, hang around, liquor, loot, looting, pearly, stores, unemployed
«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolve, absolved, code, critter, critters, journalist, Journalists, motive, objectivity, Olympian, purity, roach, roaches, scurry, scurrying, step on, turn on
«Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bureaucracy, dispose, disposes, dispose of, dumped, dumping, proposal, proposals, proposes
«With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
corporation, Disney, make-believe
«Children must be considered in a divorce-considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.»
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