Quotes by John McCarthy

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His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

John McCarthy

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

John McCarthy

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

John McCarthy

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.

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

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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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If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

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

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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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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

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

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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

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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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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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

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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.

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

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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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