122 Quotes by Mort Sahl

I’m for capital punishment. You’ve got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

I don’t think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it’s personified we discredit the man.

I took benzedrine – I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

New book on Malcolm X says we don’t know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

I don’t think fascism is dying for.

A Yuppie is someone who believes it’s courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn’t been reviewed yet.

A political satirist’s job is to draw blood. I’m not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

I never met a man I didn’t like until I met Will Rogers.