P. J. O'Rourke Work Quotations

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.