John McCarthy

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

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

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.