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Ben Stein Quotes
Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein - American
actor, writer, economist and commentator
Political Activist Liberty
"Somewhere there is a map of
how it can be done."
"Faith is not believing that
God can. It is knowing that God will."
"The human spirit needs to accomplish,
to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
"You cannot win if you're not
at the table. You have to be where the action is."
"The indispensable first step to
getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
"Jump into the middle of things,
get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
"So many fail because they don't
get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."
"The successful people of this world
take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it
is."
"Personal relationships are
the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement
in real life grows."
"Love of God and compassion
and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing
people."
"It is inevitable that some defeat
will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished
when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."
"Keep on beginning and failing.
Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until
have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but
one you'll be glad to remember."
"Evolutionism, as taught by
Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has
nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity,
thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's
got some gigantic missing pieces."
"Anyway, all of this is to illustrate
how much I hate discrimination by reason of race, ethnicity, or religion.
I live in a highly ethnically mixed neighborhood in California now, and
I love any neighbor who does not have loud parties and cleans up after
his dog. Color and race do not matter one bit to me."
"If we have as a social rule that
poorer Americans are required to have the same good things that rich people
have, where is the stopping point? Where do we stop short of confiscatory
taxation, taking away property, taking away affluent people's homes and
basically abandoning the bedrock of the free society -- private property
-- to achieve equality?"
"If we can tell people that it's
obscene to show pictures of children having sex (and it is), why can't
we say it's obscene to burn the flag that is the symbol of this shining
city on a hill, a flag for which many brave men and women have died? If
it hurts women's feelings to hear sex jokes at the office and if that's
illegal, doesn't it also hurt patriots' feelings to see the flag burned?"
"In today’s world, at least
in America, an Einstein or a Newton or a Galileo would probably not be
allowed to receive grants to study or to publish his research. They cannot
even mention the possibility that–as Newton or Galileo believed–these
laws were created by God or a higher being. They could get fired, lose
tenure, have their grants cut off. This can happen. It has happened."
"For any exam in history, here
is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that
attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible
good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human
personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system
is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the
aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection
to other personalities."
"[The] Third [problem with Darwinism],
which I think is overwhelming, and just sort of blows the whole theory
of Random Mutation out of the water, is, at least, let me say, raises
big questions, that is. Assuming it all did happen by Random Mutation
and Natural Selection, where did the laws of gravity come from. Where
did the laws of thermodynamics come from? Where did the laws of motion
and, of heat come from? Where, I guess that's the same as thermodynamics.
Where did all these laws, that make it possible for the universe to function,
where did they all come from? Why isn't all just chaos and everything
collapsing in on itself and killing everything?"
"We believe that Darwinism is
the real Orthodox Church, because Darwinism asks you to believe in things
unseen that are incredibly unlikely. Darwinism asks us to believe that
out of pure random chance, we got a cell that is as complicated as a Boeing
777. Darwinism asks us to believe that one day there was nothing but mud
and ooze, and the next day there was life, and very soon after there was
intelligent life. Darwinism asks us to believe that you can destroy genetic
material through random mutation and natural selection and yet end up
with more genetic material. We don't really ask you to believe anything
that difficult; it is sort of innate in mankind to believe that there
is a God, a heavenly Father and we're asking you to just follow the consequences
of that and see if possibly there could be some scientific validity to
that."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@liberty-vs-tyranny.com/
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