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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy
Talk, Nonsense, Doomed
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy
Honor, Among, Thieves
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy
Matter, Lack, Rarely
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
John McCarthy
Bad, Hard, Philosophy
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
History, Revenge, Human
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
John McCarthy
Smoking
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
John McCarthy
Struggling, Inside, Fascist
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
John McCarthy
Nature, Political, Meet
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, Between, Word
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
John McCarthy
Often, Survival, Declining
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
True, Someone, Book
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
John McCarthy
Often, Worse, Amateur
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
Knowledge, Youth, Sign
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy
Humanity, Advice, Survive
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy
Book, Name, Favorite
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, Getting, Jobs
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy
Human, Compassion, Face
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
John McCarthy
Ambition, Web, Wide
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
Attitude, Person, Said
If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
John McCarthy
Live, Hell, Rent
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
John McCarthy
Thought, Language, Surface
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
John McCarthy
Energy, Hobby, Meetings
My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
John McCarthy
Opinion, Sucker
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
John McCarthy
Until, Theory, Abandon
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
John McCarthy
Person, Rather, Once

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Nationality: American
Born: 1857
Died: 1943

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