Quotes by Steve Allen

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out...

#Government

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

#Television

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

#Humor

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a...

#Mind, #Problems, #Reason

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do...

#Steve Allen

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual...

#Steve Allen

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

#Steve Allen

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half...

#Steve Allen

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's...

#Steve Allen

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

#Steve Allen

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The...

#Steve Allen

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

#Steve Allen