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“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.”

“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he is willing to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he will do good with his own money — if a gun is held to his head.”

P.J. O'Rourke: Frases en inglés

“To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.”

How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism 'R' Us
Why I Am a Conservative (1996)

“When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Things are better now than things have been since men began keeping track of things. Things are better than they were only a few years ago. Things are better, in fact, than they were at 9:30 this morning, thanks to Tylenol and two Bloody Marys. But that's personal and history is general. It's always possible to come down with the mumps on V-J Day or to have, right in the middle of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a piece of it fall on your foot. In general, life is better than it ever has been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word: 'dentistry.”

Fuente: On The Wealth of Nations (2007), Chapter 2: "Why Is The Wealth of Nations So Damn Long?", p. 22

“The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.”

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Give War a Chance

Give War a Chance (1992)

“I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“No, it turns out Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And how crazy does that make Saddam? All he had to do was tell Hans Blix, 'Look anywhere you want. Look under the bed. Look beneath the couch. Look behind the toilet tank in the third presidential palace on the left, but keep your mitts off my copies of Maxim.' And Saddam could have gone on dictatoring away until Donald Rumsfeld gets elected head of the World Council of Churches. But no…”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Industrialization came to England but has since left.”

"Putting Words in the President's Mouth" (12 October 2004)

“Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

“A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.”

"I Agree With Me" (July/August 2004)

“Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.”

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.”

"Year in Review" in Rolling Stone (19 December 1985)

“If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Parliament of Whores

Fuente: Parliament of Whores (1991), pp. xviii-xix.

“A pleasant natural environment is a good— a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

“If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.”

Modern Manners (1983)

“I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners— two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.”

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

“People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.”

P. J. O'Rourke libro Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)