Famous Quotes / John McCarthy
30 Quotations by John McCarthy
- 1. A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will sh ...
- 2. An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
- 3. An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't tak ...
- 4. As we have recently seen, the function of the anti-trust laws is to protect the poor little fellow w ...
- 5. Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
- 6. Compassion is contempt with a human face.
- 7. Do you wish to do good for the Mexicans (Palestinians) or they merely a stick with which to beat the ...
- 8. Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?
- 9. Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It ca ...
- 10. Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
- 11. God did not design human beings in accordance with Christian principles, fascist principles, feminis ...
- 12. He divides up this subject the way a Chinese cook divides up a duck.
- 13. If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his argumen ...
- 14. Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
- 15. It's just a pissing contest, but unfortunately the contestants never seem to run out of piss.
- 16. Measuring all costs in terms of energy is merely a religious exercise.
- 17. My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
- 18. Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
- 19. Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
- 20. People mourn when a person dies, but no-one mourns the billions of intestinal bacteria that his deat ...