George Jean Nathan Quotes

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

We were fighting Nazi racism in Europe and practicing it at home.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they're being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.