John McCarthy Quotes
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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'.
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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
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If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
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Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
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Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
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His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
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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.
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Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
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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.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
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With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
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Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
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Compassion is contempt with a human face.
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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.
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When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
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Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
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Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
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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.