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John Mccarthy Quotes


Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

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.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

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.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

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'.

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.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

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.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.