Steve Allen

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Steve Allen

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Steve Allen

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Steve Allen

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

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

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

The hair is real – it’s the head that’s a fake.
Steve Allen

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.
Steve Allen

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Steve Allen