John McCarthy Quotes

• Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

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• In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

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• If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I’d rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

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• If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

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• Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

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• His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

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• He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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• 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.

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• Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

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• Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

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• 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.

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• Compassion is contempt with a human face.

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• Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

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• 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.

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• Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

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• An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn’t take his advice.

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• An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

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• Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Birth:	19th July, 1857
Death:	30th March, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

John Jay McCarthy was born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American Republican politician and lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and set up practice in Emerson, Nebraska. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Dixon County in 1890, 1892, and 1894. In 1898 and 1900 he was elected as a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district from 1903-1907. He continued with his law practice in Ponca, Nebraska.

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