Words matter. These are the best John McCarthy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
It is said that man doesn’t live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn’t take his advice.
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
My opinion is that he’s a swindler and you’re a sucker.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is ‘forbidden’, whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is ‘compulsory’.
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries’ failure to advance.
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that’s when he doesn’t forget them.
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I’d rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
