Quote

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

Mort Sahl

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Montreal
Quebec
Morton Lyon Sahl
Planet
Planets
Jobs
Left
Persons
Person
Would
Attack

More quotes by Mort Sahl

Image
That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
Mort Sahl
Image
There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
Mort Sahl
Image
Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
Mort Sahl
Image
I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
Mort Sahl
Image
I don't think fascism is dying for.
Mort Sahl
Image
Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels running the government.
Mort Sahl
Image
I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!
Mort Sahl
Image
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
Mort Sahl
Image
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
Mort Sahl
Image
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
Image
I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
Mort Sahl
Image
We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
Mort Sahl
Image
I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
Mort Sahl
Image
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
Mort Sahl
Image
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl
Image
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
Mort Sahl
Image
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
Mort Sahl
Image
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides sometimes there are a hundred.
Mort Sahl
Image
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Mort Sahl
Image
You haven't lived until you've died in California
Mort Sahl