Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. - P. J. O'Rourke 1 Share Now -
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. - P. J. O'Rourke 2 Share Now -
A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall. - P. J. O'Rourke 3 Share Now -
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. - P. J. O'Rourke 4 Share Now -
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree. - P. J. O'Rourke 5 Share Now -
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. - P. J. O'Rourke 6 Share Now -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. - P. J. O'Rourke 8 Share Now -
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. - P. J. O'Rourke 9 Share Now -
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. - P. J. O'Rourke 10 Share Now -
