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Top 30 Steve Allen Quotes (2025 Update)

Steve Allen Quote: “Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.”

1. “Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.”

2. “Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.”

— Steve Allen

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

3. “Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”

4. “Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Todo el mundo muere pero no todo el mundo vive”.”

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

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.”

6. “Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.”

— Steve Allen

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

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

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.”

8. “There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.”

— Steve Allen

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

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

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.”

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

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”

12. “One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.”

13. “We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “To those who wish to punish others – or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands – the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

14. “To those who wish to punish others – or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands – the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “This is The Tonight Show. I can’t tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.”

16. “This is The Tonight Show. I can’t tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Steve Allen Quote: “Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”

18. “Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Steve Allen Quote: “Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.”

20. “Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.”

21. “The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”

22. “Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “The secret to my success, is that I’m just too dumb to know that I can’t do it.”

23. “The secret to my success, is that I’m just too dumb to know that I can’t do it.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Everybody is somewhere.”

24. “Everybody is somewhere.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”

25. “There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.”

26. “I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.”

27. “There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.”

— Steve Allen

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

28. “In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.”

29. “Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Just as with cars, it’s critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.”

30. “Just as with cars, it’s critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.”

— Steve Allen

Steve Allen Quote: “Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.”

31. “Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.”

— Steve Allen

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