Quotes By John McCarthy

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

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

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

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

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.

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

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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

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.

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

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.