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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

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

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

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. ↗

— John McCarthy

#because #bread #cannot #consequence #fights

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

— John McCarthy

#became #later #ninety #over #sixty

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#atlantic #been #buy #crosses #europeans

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behavior #bestowed #conceived #current #gift

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#always #american #among #any #bad

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#america #american #american movies #demonstrates #europe