Ben Stein Quotes

• It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Age, God

  Tags in Amazing, Unbelief

• I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Anticipated

• Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Children

• Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find, Succeed

• It means zero to be against greed.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Greed

• If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in God

  Tags in Man

• I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grocery, Little

• I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Bed

• Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Deserves

• Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Terrified

• The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Far

• Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israel, Ago

•  If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

  Ben Stein

  Topics in God

  Tags in Bother

• I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Car

• I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Comfortable

• I am scared of running out of money.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Running

• I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agree

• As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become

• After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, After

• Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Conspiracy

Ben Stein (48)

Birth:	25th November, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lawyer, Politician, Writer

About

Ben Stein is an American actor, writer, lawyer, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.

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