Zitat des Tages von John McCarthy:
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
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.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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.
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
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.
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.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
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.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
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 word is 'compulsory'.
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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.