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. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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. P. J. O'Rourke
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

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 Christianity Religious
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. - P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P. J. O'Rourke

 Generosity Poverty And The Poor
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