25 Quotations by Mary McCarthy
- 1. A good deal of education consists of unlearning--the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
- 2. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito ...
- 3. Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati ...
- 4. Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
- 5. Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
- 6. Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
- 7. If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he ...
- 8. In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e ...
- 9. In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
- 10. In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the ...
- 11. In violence, we forget who we are.
- 12. Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away ...
- 13. It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has bec ...
- 14. Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of t ...
- 15. Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
- 16. People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
- 17. The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in o ...
- 18. The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a fo ...
- 19. The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outst ...
- 20. The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary Mccarthy Quotes by Power Quotations
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