Everybody is somewhere.

- Steve Allen

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

- Steve Allen

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

- Steve Allen

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

- 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

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials i…

- Steve Allen

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

- Steve Allen

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

- Steve Allen

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

- Steve Allen