Quotes by O'Rourke, P. J.

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if S >>

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of >>

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of soci >>

Quotations about Authority

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rare >>

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the >>

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understan >>

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

O'Rourke, P. J.