Quotes by John McCarthy

“Dont try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It cant harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.”

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

“The slogan was Dont trust anyone over thirty. Sixty years later the slogan became, Dont trust anyone over ninety.”

“Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?”

“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.”

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

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

“Its just a pissing contest, but unfortunately the contestants never seem to run out of piss.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

It is said that man doesnt 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.