Quotes From "When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What The Government Should Be Telling Us To Help..." By Bill Maher

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics, " as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. Bill Maher

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. Bill Maher

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men. Bill Maher

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers. Bill Maher

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. Bill Maher

They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on. We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to . Bill Maher

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home. Bill Maher

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance. Bill Maher

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing. Bill Maher

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it. Bill Maher

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed. Bill Maher

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay. Bill Maher

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected. Bill Maher

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it. Bill Maher

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent. Bill Maher

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved. Bill Maher

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours. . Bill Maher

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us. Bill Maher

Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's ag Bill Maher

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how. Bill Maher

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o Bill Maher

True patriotism is doing something for your country. Bill Maher

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board! " I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan. Bill Maher