42 quotes
Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.
I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know."
God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011)
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. … God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
These people call what they do "cryptozoology" — "-zoology" meaning "the study of animals", and "crypto-" meaning "shit we made up".
If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)
If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person.
Penn Jillette Rapes All the Women He Wants To (2012)
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.
Penn and Teller's How to Play in Traffic (1997)
Maybe he’ll fuck up his campaign before he fucks up the country.
Why Penn Jillette is Terrified of a President Trump (2016)
We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!
Freedom means the right to be stupid.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)
What I am doing is creating ephemera, and I believe that’s not only okay, that’s part of what makes it beautiful.
Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out (2024)
My friend Richard Feynman said, "I don't know." I heard him say it several times.
I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)
I'm saying, "This I believe: I believe there is no God."
There Is No God (2005)
He's certainly not doing enough to help Palestinians. He's certainly not doing enough to help people over there suffering — which is also true for you, also true for me, true for everybody.
Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out (2024)
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
I don't think anyone really knows how to help everyone. I don't even know what's best for me.
I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)