P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Mom, Mother

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Political, Liberty

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

• The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Stars, War

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.191, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Thinking, Years

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

• And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Worry, Earth

• Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Heaven, Earth, Pleasure

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Church, Going To Church

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.172, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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