John McCarthy

“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.”

“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 w...”

“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.”

“Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.”

“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.”

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

“We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.”

“Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.”

“Compassion is contempt with a human face.”

“An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.”

“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.”

“My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.”

“Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.”

“When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.”

“The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.”

“Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.”

“Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.”

“Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.”

“When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.”

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