Quotes About Skepticism

People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

I don't believe in credit or loans.

That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they've just completely lost the ability to think critically.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'