Jonah Quotes

Is it right for you to be angry?

And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

You know more than you know.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

If something is built to show, it's build to grow.

Top of mind means tip of tongue.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

Research by the Keller Fay Group finds that only 7 percent of word-of-mouth happens online.

Nutrition is not a private matter!

You're coming to Buzzfeed's homepage not for yourself, but to find something to share with someone else.

Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

Whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I’m awesome

People don't need to be paid to be motivated.

Virality isn’t born, it’s made.

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.