Penn Jillette Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Sex, Believe

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

• It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

  Penn Jillette

  Bullying, Gun, Thinking

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

• TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Giving, Dying

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.27, Penguin

• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

• I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Children, Thinking

• The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

  Penn Jillette

  Giving, Violence, Facts

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

• The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Gun, Rights

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

• When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Giving Money, Buying Something, Bills

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

• But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Successful, Thinking

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

• I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

  Penn Jillette

  Sexy, Thinking, Blood

  "Will You Help Penn Jillette Make a Horror Film?" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. September 19, 2013.

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