109 Quotes by Steve Allen

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Todo el mundo muere pero no todo el mundo vive”.

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy – and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is – holy war.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions – and should be vigorously opposed.

Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.