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John McCarthy
American
Politician
Born:
Jul 19
,
1857
Died:
Mar 30
,
1943
Anyone
He
His
Man
People
You
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
John McCarthy
People
Smoking
More
More People
Than
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy
Compassion
Face
Contempt
Human
Human Face
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
John McCarthy
World
Spider
Ambition
World Wide Web
Web
His
Wide
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
John McCarthy
Nature
Political
Conviction
Meet
Thugs
Surprising
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
John McCarthy
People
Ideology
Other
Once
Rather
He
Devoted
Becomes
Person
Behalf
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
John McCarthy
Language
Thought
Surface
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
Loyalty
People
Genocide
Jobs
Fired
Merely
Institution
Greater
Than
Behalf
Getting
Committing
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.
John McCarthy
Great
Peace
People
World
Some People
Out
Some
Through
Most
Force
Quarrelsome
Movement
Act
Peace Movement
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
John McCarthy
You
Made
Wish
Whatever
Statement
Say
More
Than
Any
Six
Levels
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'.
John McCarthy
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
Word
Language
Liberal
Compulsory
Between
Most
Contemporary
Forbidden
Beautiful Word
Difference
Whereas
English
English Language
Socialist
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
John McCarthy
Liberals
Out
Inside
Struggling
Get
Many
Fascist
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.
John McCarthy
Made
Promises
Society
Harmful
One Thing
More
Only
Only One Thing
He
Than
Forget
Get
Official
Forgetting
Order
Them
Elected
Thing
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy
Book
Favorite
Critic
Name
Like
Pig
His
Asking
Butcher
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.
John McCarthy
Alone
Man
People
Sometimes
Live
Too
Other
Because
Said
Get
Often
Bread
Unfortunate
Cannot
Fights
Who
Consequence
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
Try
Hatred
Living
Other
Rand
Out
Diverted
Concentrating
Talk
Dead
His
Person
Any
Anyone
Might
Actually
Harm
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
John McCarthy
Trust
Thirty
Later
Ninety
Slogan
Over
Became
Years
Sixty
Anyone
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.
John McCarthy
Love
Failure
You
Blame
World
First
Absolve
Advance
Leaders
Countries
Course
First World
Sins
Love You
Them
Ills
World Leaders
Third
Third World
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
John McCarthy
Shelf
Terrorists
May
Short
Lives
Suicidal
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
John McCarthy
Recycling
Energy
Saves
Meetings
About
More
Attending
Than
Hobby
Your
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
Work
Work Hard
Money
Few
Enough
Benevolence
Benevolent
Out
Occupations
Either
Them
Hard
Socialists
Alas
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy
Man
Humanity
Will
Advice
Extreme
Take
His
Optimist
Survive
Who
Even
Believes
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
Humanity
Honesty
Better
Face
Politicians
Both
Somewhat
Journalists
Opinion
Up
Than
Situations
Which
Average
Strain
Stand
Stand Up
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
Knowledge
Youth
Sign
Marxism
Excessive
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
John McCarthy
Sometimes
Riots
Tens
Most
Ideological
Intellectuals
Soccer
Millions
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
Man
Book
Will
Argument
Reading
Someone
More
True
Likely
Intellectual
Shoot
Being
Order
After
Shot
Convinced
Who
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