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 Allen

  Positive, Nice, Imagination

  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 Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

  Steve Allen

  Mind, Television, Radio

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

  Steve Allen

  Reality

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• Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

  Steve Allen

  Helping, Social, Spots

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

  Steve Allen

  Patriotism, Totalitarianism

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

  Steve Allen

  Passion, Civilization, Evil

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• Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

  Steve Allen

  Ideas, Religion, Destructive

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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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 Allen

  Laughter, Thinking, Humanity

  Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub

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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 Allen

  Gratitude, Religious, Atheist

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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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 Allen

  Years, Water, Today

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

  Steve Allen

  War, If There Is A God, Phrases

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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 Allen

  Chinese, Religion, Mao

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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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 Allen

  Teacher, President, Want

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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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 Allen

  Punishment, People, United States

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

  Steve Allen

  Exercise, Dieting, Fit

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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.

  Steve Allen

  Funny, Dog, Smoking

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• Everybody is somewhere.

  Steve Allen

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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 Allen

  Religious, Philosophy, Commitment

  Steve Allen (1996). “But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind”

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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.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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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 Allen

  Bible, Religious, Wall

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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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 Allen

  Forever, Tonight, Goes On

  First broadcast of "The Tonight Show", 1953.

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• Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Eye, Arms

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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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 Allen

  Religion, Assumption, Should

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.

  Steve Allen

  Running, Adversity, Long

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