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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television personality, and best-selling author best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller . The duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He has published eight books. He is an outspoken atheist but tempers his remarks with an assurance that the ongoing exchange of ideas is the best way to avoid coming to blows. As long as people keep talking, he says, they are less likely to resort to violence. He is a strong supporter of greater civil rights for the average person and makes no bones over his deep suspicions of any government “watchdog”.
“I very much enjoy stating that I have never had a drink of alcohol or a toke of any recreational drug in my life. What I don’t state is that I will never have a drink of alcohol or a toke of any recreational drug in my life. I can report on the past, but I’m reluctant to predict the future".
“Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.”
“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people. We have no proof that the bad, stupid crazy people who have planted bombs in the past few years used the phone much for their stupid bad crimes, let alone logged on the Internet. Yet when those kind of bad things happen nowadays, the government tries to do bad things to phones and the Net."
“Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.”
“Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.”
“So no one cares - and that protects your personal privacy. At least most of the time no one cares. I’m not making the argument that if we’re doing nothing wrong, then we shouldn’t be afraid of the government monitoring us. That’s a stupid, bad argument. We should always be afraid of any government monitoring us. The fact that no one cares what we’re talking about is an argument for keeping it that way. We don’t want the government to be able to care. Any power you give the government, the government will abuse."
“All the things that make life worth living take work.”
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- - - - - - -“Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.”
“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people. We have no proof that the bad, stupid crazy people who have planted bombs in the past few years used the phone much for their stupid bad crimes, let alone logged on the Internet. Yet when those kind of bad things happen nowadays, the government tries to do bad things to phones and the Net."
“Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.”
“Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.”
“So no one cares - and that protects your personal privacy. At least most of the time no one cares. I’m not making the argument that if we’re doing nothing wrong, then we shouldn’t be afraid of the government monitoring us. That’s a stupid, bad argument. We should always be afraid of any government monitoring us. The fact that no one cares what we’re talking about is an argument for keeping it that way. We don’t want the government to be able to care. Any power you give the government, the government will abuse."
“All the things that make life worth living take work.”
