John McCarthy Quotes

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. 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. The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. 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 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. Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. <br />John McCarthy Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. Once a person has killed other peo 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. Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker. My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. Language is froth on the surface of thought. 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. Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. 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. Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.