Frases de P.J. O&#39;Rourke página 2

“Dar dinero y poder al gobierno es como dar whisky y las llaves del coche a un adolescente.”

“A los políticos les interesa la gente, lo cual no siempre es una virtud. También a las pulgas les interesan los perros.”

“En China no hay forma de conseguir buena comida para llevar a casa y en Cuba los habanos están racionados. Eso es todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el comunismo.”

“Cuando la compra y la venta están controladas por la legislación, lo primero que se compra son los legisladores.”

“Todo el mundo quiere salvar la tierra; nadie quiere ayudar a su madre a lavar los platos.”

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“Los que se proponen salvar la Tierra quieren que la Tierra parezca estar peor de lo que está para que su misión parezca más importante.”

P.J. O'Rourke Frases y Citas

“Irritarse por la superpoblación es la forma libre de culpa, incluso santurrona, que tienen los progres de ser racistas.”

“Un poco de gobierno y un poco de suerte son necesarios en la vida, pero sólo un estúpido confía en estas cosas.”

“La naturaleza tendrá sus derechos tan pronto como tenga obligaciones. En el instante en que veamos pájaros, árboles, bichos y ardillas recogiendo basura, dando dinero por caridad y vigilando a nuestros niños en el parque, entonces les dejaremos votar.”

“El impuesto sobre la renta ha creado más criminales que cualquier otro acto del gobierno.”

“Cuando un ente privado no produce los resultados deseados, uno se desprende de él. Pero un ente público se agranda.”

“Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting Hillary in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money — hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”

P.J. O'Rourke: Frases en inglés

“The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is 'America's ex-wife.”

The Liberty Manifesto (1993)

“People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.”

"Letter to Our European Friends" (4 February 2008)

“Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Fishing … is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Crowded as the country is, is overcrowding even its main problem? Hong Kong and Singapore both have greater population densities (14.315 and 12.347 per square mile, respectively) than Bangladesh, and they're called success stories. The same goes for Monaco. In fact, the whole Riviera is packed in August, and neither Malthus nor Ehrlich have complained about the topless beaches of St. Tropez.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Marilyn Quayle was there, too, looking – it was indeed a strange week in Washington – great. She had her hair done up in something my wife said was a chignon, and whatever it was, it made Marilyn look considerably less like a Cape buffalo than usual. Though actually I admired the Cape buffalo look. I have an idea that – like a Cape buffalo – if Marilyn Quayle gets furious and charges, you've got only one shot at the skull. You wouldn't want to just wound her.”

As quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray

“They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, "the Irish of Asia."”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores (1991)

“Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.”

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“War will exist as long as there's a food chain.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Weird clothing is de rigeur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.”

Modern Manners (1983)

“The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts— squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores (1991)

“The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“The Institute of U. S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)