A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
John McCarthy
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.
John McCarthy
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.
John McCarthy
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
John McCarthy
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy
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.
John McCarthy
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
John McCarthy
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy
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.
John McCarthy
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
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.
John McCarthy
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
John McCarthy
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
John McCarthy
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
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